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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...

This Fossilized Creature Has 3 Eyes, but Everything Else Looks Familiar

More than 500 million years before Matt Groening and “The Simpsons” introduced us to Blinky, a mutated fish with an extra eye swimming...

Behind a Museum Door, These Beetles Are Eating Flesh for Science

Deep in the labyrinth of the American Museum of Natural History, past the giant suspended blue whale and the first floor’s Alaska brown...

Trump’s Focus on Punishing Drug Dealers May Hurt Drug Users Trying to Quit

President Trump has long railed against drug traffickers. He has said they should be given the death penalty “for their heinous acts.” On...

3M to Pay New Jersey Up to $450 Million for Drinking-Water Contamination

3M is set to pay New Jersey up to $450 million over the next quarter-century to settle claims it contaminated the state with...

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