An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity. Here’s What the Ruling Means.
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court granted members of the billionaire Sackler family a legal golden key that they had been seeking for nearly four...
FDA Approves Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine for Adults 60 and Older
Why It Matters: Older adults are at a higher risk. Each year, about 60,000 adults 65 and older are hospitalized with R.S.V. and about 6,000...
NASA UFO Panels Says It’s Pushing U.S. To Collect Better Data
The Latest Members of a NASA task force that studies unidentified anomalous phenomena, or U.A.P.s, said on Wednesday that they were pushing the government to...
Sick Workers Tied to 40% of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, C.D.C. Says
People who showed up to their restaurant jobs while sick were linked to 40 percent of food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause from 2017...
An Inside Look at Covid’s Lasting Damage to the Lungs
More than three years after the start of the pandemic, many Covid survivors continue to struggle. Some, especially those who became so severely ill that...
How to Lower Deaths Among Women? Give Away Cash.
Why It Matters: Poverty is a big killer. In 2019, more than 8 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on less...
Honoring the Body Donors Who Are a Medical Student’s ‘First Patient’
Similar scenes played out across the country this spring as medical, dental and physical therapy students assembled to offer tributes to whole-body donors and their...
Ian Hacking, Eminent Philosopher of Science and Much Else, Dies at 87
Ian Hacking, a Canadian philosopher widely hailed as a giant of modern thought for game-changing contributions to the philosophies of science, probability and mathematics, as...
Trying to Find Your Place in the World? Try Birding From a Different Angle.
Some events are simply too big for us to fathom. Bird migration, for instance, happens twice a year on a planetary scale that bruises the...
The Anhinga or ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More to Come
For two weeks, a strange bird has perched in Brooklyn over the treetops of one of the Three Sisters Islands in Prospect Park Lake. It...
How Harmful Are Gas Stove Pollutants, Really?
Every morning, as millions of Americans light up the gas stoves in their kitchens to heat some water or griddle their hash browns, they aren’t just...
Ispace’s Japanese Moon Lander Crashed Because of Software Glitch
Why It Matters: Learning and improving. A review of data showed that the software guiding the descent appeared to lose track of the landers’s altitude...
To Prevent Heart Attacks, Doctors Try a New Genetic Test
Despite the high hopes for the new tests, there are many questions. Some critics say that a focus on treating younger people is misplaced because...
MBR Explorer: UAE Plans Space Mission to Explore Asteroid Belt
Building off the success of its Hope spacecraft, which is still circling and studying Mars, the United Arab Emirates announced on Monday plans for an...