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The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds

In our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls,...

A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized

Call us Homo slobbus.It took roughly four billion years for the first living bit of protoplasm, bred perhaps in an undersea volcanic vent...

‘Ready, Steady, Slow’: Championship Snail Racing at 0.006 M.P.H.

For the next few weeks, Paris will be home to many of the world’s impressive athletes, including some of the fastest human beings...

Richard M. Goldstein, Who Helped Map the Cosmos, Dies at 97

Richard M. Goldstein, a trailblazer in planetary exploration who used ground-based radars to map planets with techniques that scientists now use to measure...

Second Patient to Receive a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman who was the second person to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig, and who lived...

Should You Hug a Sloth?

To hear animal rights activists tell it, those at SeaQuest are not. The for-profit company is not accredited by any zoo organization. It...

F.T.C. Says Middlemen Appear to Be Driving Up Drug Prices

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sharply criticized pharmacy benefit managers, saying in a scathing 71-page report that “these powerful middlemen may be...

How to Watch Europe Launch Its Powerful New Rocket

The European Space Agency has waited about a decade for the first launch of Ariane 6, a powerful new rocket. But the brand-new...

To Protect Redwoods, They Lit a Fire

A wake-up callThe ferocious Castle Fire in 2020 was the first of the extreme fires to strike the heart of the sequoia forests...

Children With Autism Carry Unique Gut Flora, Study Finds

The process for diagnosing a child with autism heavily relies on a parent's description of their child’s behavior and a professional’s observations. It...

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