Satellites Threaten Astronomy, but a Few Scientists See an Opportunity
Each night, the stars of the sky compete with thousands of satellites. The number of intruders is only growing as constellations of satellites proliferate, with...
New Mars Map Lets You ‘See the Whole Planet at Once’
A new global map of Mars offers a fresh perspective on the planet. The map, released earlier this month, was pieced together from 3,000 pictures...
Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back AI Rivals
Google’s employees were shocked when they learned in March that the South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung was considering replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing as...
CoolSculpting Promised to Zap Fat. For Some, It Brought Disfigurement.
Confidentiality agreements can also make patients think twice before talking about P.A.H. even with friends — let alone on social media, an important forum for...
What Happens Next in the Mifepristone Abortion Drug Case
WASHINGTON — Even as a federal appeals court said late Wednesday that it would allow the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market, it...
Michigan Paper Mill Fungal Infection Leaves 1 Dead and Nearly 100 Sickened
At least one person has died and nearly 100 people have gotten sick in a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill in Michigan, the...
The End of Faking It in Silicon Valley
“There is more money at stake, so it just changes the calculus,” said Alexander Dyck, a professor of finance at the University of Toronto who...
Europe’s Juice Mission Launches to Jupiter and Its Moons
Jupiter, king of the solar system, will be getting a new robotic visitor. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice, launched on Friday morning from...
Bird Flu Sample from Chilean Man Showed Some Signs of Adaptation to Mammals
A sample of avian influenza isolated from a Chilean man who fell ill last month contains two genetic mutations that are signs of adaptation to...
35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now
The public release of ChatGPT last fall kicked off a wave of interest in artificial intelligence. A.I. models have since snaked their way into many...
Expo Chicago Awards Prizes to Museums for Acquisitions of Work by Under-Recognized Artists
The Expo Chicago art fair has revealed the four institutions set to acquire works being sold there via prizes, as well as the curators set...
Billionaire Art Collector Mitchell Rales and Josh Harris to Buy Washington Commanders
Josh Harris has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the Washington Commanders for $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Harris and Commanders owner Dan Snyder are...
Abortion Pills, the Latest Battleground, Have Been Little Known to Americans
Abortion pills have dominated headlines in the past week, but until recently, relatively few Americans were familiar with the concept of medication abortions, even as...
Paintings Returned from Musée d’Orsay to Heirs to be Auctioned in New York
This past February, after a decade-long legal dispute, a French court ordered the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to return a group of Impressionist paintings that...