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Cyberattack Wreaks Havoc on Hospitals and Doctors

An urgent care chain in Ohio may be forced to stop paying rent and other bills to cover salaries. In Florida, a cancer...

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, Who Saw Ecology as God’s Work, Dies at 70

Ellen Bernstein, a river guide turned rabbi who blazed a spiritual trail in the environmental movement by undergirding it with the Hebrew Bible’s...

Whatever We Call This Age, Humans Are Changing the Planet. Here’s How.

Coming after nearly 15 years of deliberation, a ruling by geologists on Tuesday feels almost anticlimactic: Our species has not so radically altered...

Global Warming Is Particularly Bad for Women-Led Families, Study Says

Extreme heat is making some of the world’s poorest women poorer.That is the stark conclusion of a report, released Tuesday, by the United...

Powerful Psychedelic Gains Renewed Attention as a Treatment for Opioid Addiction

The drug company Atai Life Sciences is spending millions to research the compound, and congressional lawmakers from both parties have been pushing the...

What to Know About Ibogaine

What is ibogaine?A naturally occurring psychoactive compound, ibogaine comes from the iboga tree, a rainforest shrub native to Central Africa. The drug comes...

This Ancient Factory Helped Purple Reign

The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by...

An Antibiotic After Sex Greatly Reduced Syphilis and Chlamydia Cases

A single dose of doxycycline, a widely used antibiotic, taken after sex halved the incidence of chlamydia and early syphilis among gay and...

Mary Bartlett Bunge, 92, Dies; Pioneer in Spinal Injury Treatment

Mary Bartlett Bunge, who with her husband, Richard, studied how the body responds to spinal cord injuries and continued their work after his...

This article was published prematurely.

A new study suggests that the amount of the element on the moon of Jupiter is on the lower end of previous estimates. Source...

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