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Document Shows E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Limits on Mercury From Power Plants

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to weaken a Biden-era regulation that required power plants to slash pollutants, including the emissions of mercury, a...

Racing to Save California’s Elephant Seals From Bird Flu

During the breeding season, the center sees a lot of underweight, malnourished elephant seal pups, many of which are still too young to...

What a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Like Biden’s Means for Patients

Prostate cancer experts say that former President Joseph R. Biden’s diagnosis is serious. Announced on Sunday by his office, the cancer has spread...

Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports

Overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 30,000 last year, the government reported on Wednesday, the strongest sign yet that the...

U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia

Government lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to deport a Harvard scientist back to Russia, a country...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Spotted a Northern Lights-Like Green Glow

The northern lights are fleeting and fantastical. But Elise Wright Knutsen, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oslo, has gotten used to...

Richard L. Garwin, a Creator of the Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 97

Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the groundwork for insights into...

Fossil Suggests Feathered Archaeopteryx Probably Flew Like a Chicken

In 1861, scientists discovered Archaeopteryx, a dinosaur with feathers, in 150-million-year-old limestones in Solnhofen, Germany. They didn’t know it at the time, but...

A.I. Was Coming for Radiologists’ Jobs. So Far, They’re Just More Efficient.

Nine years ago, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence scientists singled out an endangered occupational species.“People should stop training radiologists now,” Geoffrey...

Benzo Withdrawal Symptoms Can Be Life-Threatening

Tasha Hedges took Xanax for 20 years to treat her anxiety and panic attacks, exactly as a psychiatrist had prescribed it. Then in...

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