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The Physicians Really Are Healing Themselves, With Ozempic

At cardiology conferences and diabetes meetings, doctors can’t help noticing tha...

Susan F. Wood, Who Quit F.D.A. Over Contraception Pill ...

She left the agency saying politics had slowed the approval of the morning-after...

The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede

A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, belie...

NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against ...

The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for dec...

Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne?

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are n...

Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European langua...

The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil R...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence o...

Plesiosaur Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales on Anc...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oc...

How to Boil an Egg? Scientists Claim to Have Cracked th...

Their new method takes 32 minutes.

What Lurks in This Flower’s Bizarrely Large Y Chromosome?

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white c...

A Fungus That Turns Spiders Into Zombies Is a Discovery...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks s...

Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the s...

A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences

President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a br...

C.D.C. Site Restores Some Purged Files After ‘Gender Id...

Intense backlash prompted the reinstatement of some online resources. But guidel...

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Names Alexandra Bell ...

Alexandra Bell is bringing more than a decade of experience in nuclear policy to...

A Swearing Expert Discusses the State of Profanity

Timothy Jay, a scholar in the science of swearing, has a few choice words about ...

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