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Overlooked No More: Yvonne Barr, Who Helped Discover a Cancer-Causing Virus

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.Yvonne...

Smells Like Teen … Sandalwood?

Few parents would describe the smells emanating from their adolescent children as redolent of sandalwood. But one of the distinct components of teenage...

The Psychedelic Evangelist

Before he died last year, Roland Griffiths was arguably the world’s most famous psychedelics researcher. Since 2006, his work has suggested that psilocybin,...

Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney Into a Patient, a Medical Milestone

Surgeons in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into an ailing 62-year-old man, the first procedure of its kind....

Long Before Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops, There Were Hallucinogenic Seeds

Black henbane has been found at archaeological sites in the Netherlands that date back to the Neolithic Period. But because it is a...

Climate Change Made an Early Heat Wave in West Africa 10 Times as Likely

A remarkably early, record-breaking heat wave hit the southern part of West Africa in mid-February. Climate change made this extreme heat 10 times...

Frans de Waal, Who Found the Origins of Morality in Apes, Dies at 75

Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes think, feel, strategize,...

More Studies by Columbia Cancer Researchers Are Retracted

Scientists in a prominent cancer lab at Columbia University have now had four studies retracted and a stern note added to a fifth...

Fossil Trove from 74,000 Years Ago Points to Remarkably Adaptive Humans

In 2002, a crew of paleoanthropologists were working in northwestern Ethiopia when they came across chipped stones and fossilized animal bones — telltale...

Following Measles Outbreaks, Officials Grow Wary of Renewed Threat

Measles, a highly contagious but preventable disease, is resurging in pockets of the United States, a warning of the dangers of the strengthening...

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