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Dr. Oz ‘Disavows’ Support for Transgender Care, Allaying a Senator’s Concerns

Senator Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican, said on Monday that he had decided to support the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead...

How the Myanmar Earthquake Shook Skyscrapers in Bangkok

More than 600 miles separated the epicenter of Friday’s earthquake in Myanmar from the skyscrapers of Bangkok, which lurched and swayed on the...

NASA Astronauts Speak for First Time After 9-Month Stay in Space at ISS

After a stay aboard the International Space Station that unexpectedly stretched to nine and a half months, the NASA astronaut Suni Williams is...

Eating ‘Family Style’ May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It

For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shape organism is among the largest unicellular...

A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

When the environmental group Greenpeace lost a nearly $670 million verdict this month over its role in oil pipeline protests, a quarter-billion dollars...

Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn

President Trump’s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of...

Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say

Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that...

A New Dinosaur Museum Rises From a Hole in the Ground in New Jersey

Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe’s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an...

Eli Lilly Drug Reduces Mysterious Lp(a) Particle Involved in Heart Attack Risk

As many as one in five people — an estimated 64 million in the United States — have elevated levels of a tiny...

Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe

The engine shuddered to life around half past noon local time on Sunday, and with a guttural roar, the 92-foot-tall Spectrum rocket lifted...

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