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NASA Reaches Voyager 2 With a Last-Ditch ‘Shout’ Across the Void

It took an interstellar “shout” across the solar system. But NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Friday that it re-established full communications with...

3 Factors Keeping Americans From New Weight-Loss Drugs

A Statistic That Sums It Up: 15 percent.That’s the median weight loss experienced by people who take Wegovy, a drug from Novo Nordisk.The...

New Antarctic Starfish Are Doting Parents and Vicious Predators

Christopher Mah, a biologist at the Smithsonian, was scouring the shelves of the museum for deep-sea starfish when he had an idea: Why...

‘It’s Crazy’: The Scramble for Ancient Treasures After Ukraine’s Dam Disaster

One summer evening as the sun sank behind the Dnipro River, the mammoth waterway that bisects Ukraine, Anatolii Volkov walked along a river...

Medical Group Backs Youth Gender Treatments, but Calls for Research Review

The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical approach that has...

Enslaved African Americans in Maryland Linked to 42,000 Living Relatives

A construction team working on a highway expansion in Maryland in 1979 discovered human remains on the grounds of an 18th-century ironworks. Eventually,...

Electrocution Isn’t the Main Thing Killing Birds Along Power Lines

Birds get electrocuted on power lines. But people shooting at birds perched on power poles may be even more of a problem. In...

Leprosy May Be Endemic in Central Florida, Scientists Report

Why It Matters: The disease can be treated if doctors recognize it.Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is caused by slow-growing bacteria called...

Alan Roland, 93, Psychoanalyst Who Cautioned Against Western Bias, Dies

Alan Roland, who brought new insights to psychoanalysis by calling out a Western bias in much of the field and factoring in differences...

This Ancient Whale May Have Been the Heaviest Animal Ever

Paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the fossilized bones of one of the strangest whales in history. The 39-million-year-old leviathan, called Perucetus, may have weighed...

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