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Dr. Susan Love, Surgeon and Breast Health Advocate, Dies at 75

Dr. Love is survived by her wife, Dr. Helen Sperry Cooksey, a surgeon, whom she married in San Francisco in 2004 during...

A New Kind of Disaster Aid: Pay People Cash, Before Disaster Strikes

Disasters can push the world’s poorest deeper into poverty. Now aid agencies are trying something new. They’re giving small bits of cash to...

A Blood Test Predicts Pre-eclampsia in Pregnant Women

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood test that can identify pregnant women who are at imminent risk of developing a...

Frank Field, Who Brought Expertise to TV Weathercasting, Dies at 100

Frank Field, who as a meteorologist brought a groundbreaking credential to his job as a television weather forecaster in New York, and who...

A Climate Laggard in America’s Industrial Heartland Has a Plan to Change, Fast

From toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes to sewage pouring into Detroit basements to choking wildfire smoke that drifted south from Canada,...

How to Watch SpaceX Launch the Euclid Mission to Study the Dark Universe

The European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft is set to sail into its mission to chart the history of the universe as far back...

When Is a Cannibal Not a Cannibal?

Everybody’s quick to see a cannibal. The Romans thought the ancient Britons feasted on human flesh, and the British thought the same about...

2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off

On a muggy June night in Greenwich Village, more than 800 neuroscientists, philosophers and curious members of the public packed into an auditorium....

Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved by Gavi

Why It Matters: Combining vaccines could offer longevity.Oral polio vaccines, administered in droplet form, have driven down polio cases by more than 99...

First the Smoke. Then the Bugs.

It’s been described as a plague and a sign of the end times, turning New York City into the “Bug Apple.”Insects may descend...

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