Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Unlike most...
Who Will Have the Last Word on the Universe?
The End is coming, in maybe 100 billion years. Is it too soon to start freaking out? “There will be a last sentient being, there...
Price to Plug Old Wells in Gulf of Mexico? $30 Billion, Study Says.
The News Ever since the first offshore platforms went up off Louisiana 85 years ago, the Gulf of Mexico has been an oil and gas...
Why Does This Cannibalistic Fish Keep Washing Ashore?
For hundreds of years, a strange species of fish with long fanglike teeth that eats its own kind and spends most of its time at...
Webb Telescope Finds a New Asteroid Belt in Fomalhaut Star System
Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away, is so dazzlingly bright that it blots out the faint light of other stars around it. Stargazers have...
New Butterflies Are Named for Sauron, ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain
A new genus of butterfly, with dark, eye-like spots on its distinctive orange wings, has been named after Sauron, the arch-villain of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy...
Too Many Older Men Are Still Screened for Prostate Cancer
Last summer, Joe Loree made an appointment to see his urologist. He’d occasionally noticed blood in his urine and wanted to have that checked out....
¿En qué estará pensando el último ser humano del universo?
El fin se acerca, en quizás unos 100.000 millones de años. ¿Es muy pronto para empezar a enloquecer? “Habrá un último ser consciente, habrá un...
Link Between Long Telomeres and Long Life Is a Tall Tale, Study Finds
The story, as often happens in science, sounded so appealing. Cells have a molecular clock that determines how long they live. If you can just...
Alabama Discriminated Against Black Residents Over Sewage, Justice Dept. Says
The Justice Department said it had reached an interim agreement with the health departments of Alabama and one of its rural counties over practices found...
Walensky Resigns as C.D.C. Director
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will step down from her position on June 30, she announced on...
C.D.C. to Scale Back Covid Tracking Efforts
Why It Matters: Covid still claims more than 1,000 lives weekly Even in a season that usually brings a lull in respiratory illnesses, and even...
W.H.O. Ends Covid World Health Emergency Designation
The World Health Organization announced on Friday that it was ending the emergency it declared for Covid-19 more than three years ago, a milestone in...
Living and Breathing on the Front Line of a Toxic Chemical Zone
Juan López had just returned home from his job supervising the cleaning of giant tanks that hold toxic chemicals produced along the Houston Ship Channel,...