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They Shoot Owls in California, Don’t They?

In the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, the northern spotted owl, a rare and fragile subspecies of spotted owl, is being muscled...

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries in Hepatitis-C Treatment

In the 10 years since the drugmaker Gilead debuted a revolutionary treatment for hepatitis C, a wave of new therapies have been used...

New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity

It started with a lament over the fate of empty beer and wine bottles.In early 2020, Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz, then seniors...

Museums Are Changing How They Bring Natural Sciences to Life

At the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, one of the top priorities is helping visitors better understand the not-always-obvious natural world...

Federal Officials Find No Live Bird Flu Virus in Initial Milk Tests

Federal regulators on Friday said that they had not yet discovered live bird flu virus in the first batch of retail milk samples...

Biden Delays Ban on Menthol Cigarettes

The Biden administration said on Friday that it was delaying a decision on whether to ban menthol cigarettes as federal officials take more...

At Least Three Women Were Infected With H.I.V. After ‘Vampire Facials’

At least three women were infected with H.I.V. during cosmetic “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed spa in Albuquerque, federal officials said Thursday....

ExxonMobil and Chevron Report Lower Earnings

ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest American energy companies, said on Friday that their earnings in the first quarter fell from a year earlier,...

How Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations

The Biden administration’s move on Thursday to strictly limit pollution from coal-burning power plants is a major policy shift. But in many ways...

Five Major Climate Policies Trump Would Probably Reverse if Elected

Former President Donald J. Trump has vowed to “cancel” President Biden’s policies for cutting pollution from fossil-fuel-burning power plants, “terminate” efforts to encourage...

Ancient Female Ballplayer Makes Public Debut

The six-foot woman, carved in pale stone, wears a peaked headdress, circular earrings and the wide hip belt and kneepads of an ancient...

Exploring Atomic Bomb History Beyond Los Alamos

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and...

Can the Best Fossils Ever Found Answer the Biggest Dinosaur Question?

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and...

One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu

Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a naturally representative study,...

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