Biden Administration Approves Key Permit for West Virginia Gas Pipeline
Why It Matters: Biden needs Manchin, and Manchin needs fossil fuels. The Mountain Valley Pipeline has been opposed for years by environmentalists, civil rights activists...
FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Hot Flashes
Why It Matters: There are few harmless antidotes Periodic overheating is a common symptom of menopause, which Astellas suggests affects at least 60 percent of...
Death Cap Mushroom Study Offers Hope for Antidote
Foragers around the world hunt for wild mushrooms to bring their earthy, nutty, meaty flavors to the table. But every so often, people mistake a...
How a High-Tech Egg Could Help the Endangered California Condor
For two months this spring, a pair of California condor parents carefully tended to a single, enormous egg. They took turns sitting on the egg...
In Ancient Egypt, Severed Hands Were Spoils of War
Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo who was not involved in the project, said that the new analysis “raises interesting questions...
Appeals Court Pauses Ruling That Threatened Free Preventive Health Care
The News A federal appeals court on Monday temporarily blocked a lower court decision that overturned the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that all health plans...
World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners
The World Health Organization on Monday warned against using artificial sweeteners to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases, saying that long-term...
Saturn Adds 62 Newly Discovered Moons to Its Total
In the red corner, Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting our sun, which shaped our solar system with its gravitational bulk. In the blue corner, Saturn,...
Mutation Protected Man From Alzheimer’s Disease, Hinting at Treatment
The News The man should have gotten Alzheimer’s disease in his early 40s — he had a gene mutation that guaranteed it, or so it...
Biden Chooses Monica Bertagnolli to Lead NIH
WASHINGTON — President Biden announced on Monday that he would nominate Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon who became the director of the National...
Bernadine Strik, Whose Insights Helped Blueberries Thrive, Dies at 60
Bernadine Strik, a horticulture professor at Oregon State University whose innovative cultivation strategies shook up the American blueberry industry, died on April 14 at a...
The Biggest Explosion in the Cosmos Just Keeps Going
It’s a dog-eat-dog cosmos. Not two weeks ago, on May 3, astronomers reported observing a star that was in the process of swallowing one of...
Corporate Giants Buy Up Primary Care Practices at Rapid Pace
It’s no surprise that the shortage of primary care doctors — who are critically important to the health of Americans — is getting worse. They...
Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Attracting Young Users
Ayla Wing’s middle school students don’t always know what to make of their 26-year-old teacher’s hearing aids. The most common response she hears: “Oh, my...