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Dementia May Not Always Be the Threat It Is Now. Here’s Why.

Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her...

E.P.A. Investigations of Severe Pollution Look Increasingly at Risk

A refinery in New Mexico that the federal government has accused of some of the worst air pollution in the country.A chemical plant...

Inside the Turmoil at the V.A. Mental Health System Under Trump

Late in February, as the Trump administration ramped up its quest to transform the federal government, a psychiatrist who treats veterans was directed...

After Lunar Disappointments, NASA Hits the Jackpot With Blue Ghost Moon Lander

NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could take scientific experiments to the moon on a lower budget than...

Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say

As containment efforts falter, the measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting back the country’s...

Kilmer McCully, Pathologist Scorned for New Theory of Heart Disease, Dies at 91

Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting...

Science Data May Soon Vanish From Government Websites.

Amid the torrent of executive orders signed by President Trump were directives that affect the language on government web pages and the public’s...

Trump Administration Delays Requirement for Companies to Track Tainted Food

The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that it would delay by 30 months a requirement that food companies and grocers rapidly...

Video Shows an Octopus Riding a Mako Shark Near New Zealand

When she spotted the mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf off New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine, a marine ecologist at the University of Auckland,...

Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation

In October 2023, three days before Hamas fighters attacked Israel, Columbia University’s new president stood outside Low Library and posed a foundational question.“What,”...

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