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Judge Strikes Down F.D.A. Rule Regulating Premium Cigars

Not Everyone Is CelebratingPublic health groups including the American Lung Association, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Cancer Society...

How Old Is That Polar Bear? The Answer Is in Its Blood.

Susannah Woodruff can’t wait to stop pulling teeth out of polar bears.Dr. Woodruff, a wildlife biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,...

Russia Is Launching Luna-25 to the Moon: How and When to Watch

Russia is going back to the moon too.For the first time since the space race with the United States in the 1960s and...

Physicists Move One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown

On July 24, a large team of researchers convened in Liverpool to unveil a single number related to the behavior of the muon,...

Discovering the Secrets of the Gilder Center

The American Museum of Natural History has always been known for creatures — just not more than a million live ones.That may change,...

Heat Singes the Mind, Not Just the Body

If you find that the blistering, unrelenting heat is making you anxious and irritable, even depressed, it’s not all in your head. Soaring...

Alice K. Ladas, Author of Landmark Book on Female Sexuality, Dies at 102

Alice Kahn Ladas, a psychologist and psychotherapist whose best-selling 1982 book, “The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality,” created a...

Woman Is Bitten by Shark in First New York City Attack in Years

A 65-year-old woman was bitten by a shark Monday afternoon at Rockaway Beach, the authorities said, in what appeared to be the first...

Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word — I Think a Crocodile Heard

Some things need no translation. No matter what language you speak, you can probably recognize a fellow human who is cheering in triumph...

Weight Loss Drug Cuts Risk of Heart Problems, Maker Says

A new obesity drug, Wegovy, slashed the risk of serious heart problems by 20 percent in a large trial, the drug’s maker said...

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