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The ‘Forbidden Planet’ That Escaped a Fiery Doom

All across the Milky Way, dying stars are gobbling up their planets. Even Earth is likely to perish this way about five billion...

The Crises of Heat and Smoke Share a Common Thread: Climate Change

Follow live updates as smoke from the Canadian wildfires worsens air quality in cities throughout the Midwest.Between the dangerous heat baking Texas and...

Something Was Messing With Earth’s Axis. The Answer Has to Do With Us.

Around the turn of the millennium, Earth’s spin started going off-kilter, and nobody could quite say why.For decades, scientists had been watching the...

Religious Freedom Arguments Underpin Wave of Challenges to Abortion Bans

After she received the medication, the process took a different turn. Via Zoom, a minister prompted Mikayla to look in a mirror to reflect...

It’s Never Too Late to Become a Nurse

“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms.Joanna...

U.S. Sees First Cases of Local Malaria Transmission in Two Decades

Why It Matters: A resurgence in travel could lead to more cases.The United States eradicated malaria decades ago, but globally there were nearly...

Anthony Fauci Will Join Faculty at Georgetown University

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who served as the federal government’s top infectious disease specialist for nearly 40 years and played a key role...

Tree Loss Increases in Crucial Tropical Forests

More than a year after countries pledged to end deforestation by 2030, the world is continuing to lose its tropical forests at a...

John B. Goodenough, 100, Dies; Nobel-Winning Creator of the Lithium-Ion Battery

He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic Yale University professor of religion and...

An A.I. Diagnosis Can Wait. Just Eliminate ‘Pajama Time.’

Dr. Matthew Hitchcock, a family physician in Chattanooga, Tenn., has an A.I. helper.It records patient visits on his smartphone and summarizes them for...

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