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Medical Experts Alarmed by Out-of-Hospital Cesareans in Florida

A new law in Florida allowing doctors to perform cesarean sections in outpatient birthing centers has raised serious safety concerns among medical experts,...

Edward Stone, 88, Physicist Who Oversaw Voyager Missions, Is Dead

Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who dispatched NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the...

El Niño Is Over. What Does That Mean for Summer?

El Niño, the natural climate pattern linked to warmer conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean, has ended, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Trump Once Promised to Revive Coal. That Was So 2016.

The first time Donald J. Trump ran for president, he slapped on a miner’s helmet and told coal workers they would be “winning,...

Why a 3-Legged Lion and His Brother Swam Across a Crocodile-Filled River

On a dark night in February, two male lions stood in the shallows of the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park, in...

Wreckage of Shackleton’s Last Ship Is Found Off Coast of Canada

Endurance, the ship that carried Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated attempt to cross Antarctica in 1915, spawned one of the greatest survival stories...

Missing a Global Climate Target Could Spell Disaster for These Polar Bears

Polar bears in the Southern Hudson Bay could go extinct as early as the 2030s because the sea ice that helps them hunt...

Is the Fight Against Big Oil Headed to the Supreme Court?

Over the past several years, dozens of cities and states have sued big oil companies, seeking to hold the producers of fossil fuels...

Mars Got Cooked During a Recent Solar Storm

The sun fired off a volley of radiation-riddled outbursts in May. When they slammed into Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was treated to...

Cada elefante tiene nombre propio, sugiere un estudio

¿Qué hay en un nombre? Es algo más que un sonido que hacen las personas para llamar la atención de cada una, es...

Akira Endo, Scholar of Statins That Reduce Heart Disease, Dies at 90

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped to lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower a type of...

Ancient Maya Genomes Are Sequenced for First Time

In the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind Chichén Itzá, the ancient Maya city in Mexico, ran into a problem:...

White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills

The Biden administration has issued, for the first time, a national strategy to combat a major national problem: food waste.Roughly 30 percent of...

A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move

Some 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had a meetup with Theia, another planetary object the size of Mars. When the...

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