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Staggering Rise in Catheter Bills Suggests Medicare Scam

Linda Hennis was checking her Medicare statement in January when she noticed something strange: It said a company she had never heard of...

Will the Super Bowl Affect Fans’ Political Views? Bet on It.

Damian R. Murray, a psychologist at Tulane University, studies how various social circumstances and life events affect people’s political views. For instance, he...

Michael Mann, a Leading Climate Scientist, Wins His Defamation Suit

The climate scientist Michael Mann on Thursday won his defamation lawsuit against both Rand Simberg, a former adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise...

Walter Shawlee, the Sovereign of Slide Rules, Is Dead at 73

For about 350 years, humanity’s most innovative hand-held computer was something called a slide rule. As typewriters once symbolized the writer, slide rules...

More Adolescent Boys Have Eating Disorders. Two Experts Discuss Why.

For decades, eating disorders were thought to afflict mostly, if not exclusively, women and girls. In fact, until 2013, the loss of menstruation...

Many Transgender Americans Face Stigma and Financial Hardship, Survey Finds

Transgender and nonbinary Americans experience stark rates of unemployment and harassment, according to the largest survey of their life experiences to date. The...

NASA Spots Signs of Twin Volcanic Plumes on Jupiter’s Moon Io

On Saturday, NASA’s Juno orbiter got a second close-up with Io, Jupiter’s third-largest moon and the most volcanic world of our solar system.The...

A New Creature Emerges From a Forest Drowned by the Gulf of Mexico

The creature was tiny, about the size and color of a grain of rice. Dan Distel, director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center...

Cancer Diagnosis Like King Charles’s Is Not Unheard-Of

A patient checks into the hospital for a routine procedure to treat an enlarged prostate. And, unexpectedly, a test done in the hospital...

The Common Threads in Chile’s Fires and California Floods: El Niño and Warming

Two places renowned for what one scientist described as “benign Mediterranean climates” are being put to the test this week as an overheated...

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