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Should Opioid Settlement Money Be Spent on Law Enforcement?

After years of litigation to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for the deadly abuse of prescription painkillers, payments from what could amount to...

A Museum of ‘Electrifying Frankness’ Weighs Dialing It Down

The Mütter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000...

El Perucetus, la ballena que pudo haber sido el animal más pesado de la historia

Los paleontólogos presentaron el miércoles los huesos fosilizados de una de las ballenas más extrañas de la historia. Este leviatán de 39 millones...

Heat, golfers and other obstacles to birding success

We asked readers what hurdles you have encountered while birding. Whether you are experienced or new to the activity, have you had any...

Una molécula para que el cáncer se autodestruya

En todo tipo de cáncer hay moléculas que aceleran un crecimiento incontrolable y mortal. ¿Qué pasaría si los científicos pudieran enganchar esas moléculas...

W. Jason Morgan, 87, Dies; Developed the Theory of Plate Tectonics

W. Jason Morgan, who in 1967 developed the theory of plate tectonics — a framework that revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and...

The Perseids Meteor Shower, One of the Year’s Best, Is Reaching Its Peak

On any given night, far from bright city lights, there’s a chance that you’ll see a beautiful streak shoot across the sky as...

‘We’re All Water-Bottle Freaks’

Carrie Frost is well equipped for hydration. A registered nurse and a mother of two from Colorado, she estimates that her family has...

A Chimp Sanctuary With a New Urgency to Give Shelter

Since she began working at The New York Times in 2021, Emily Anthes has written about African malaria mosquitoes, video-chatting parrots, California condor...

U.S. Watchdog Halts Studies at N.Y. Psychiatric Center After a Subject’s Suicide

Federal regulators have suspended research on human subjects at the Columbia-affiliated New York State Psychiatric Institute, one of the country’s oldest research centers,...

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