E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s administration is poised to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that could compel them to capture the pollution from their smokestacks, technology...
Why Are Insects Drawn to Light? A Perennial Question Gets a New Answer.
Moths and other insects are drawn to lights at night as reliably as planets orbit stars. Entomologists have long exploited this fact by setting out...
Climate Change Made East African Drought 100 Times as Likely, Study Finds
Two and a half years of meager rain have shriveled crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions,...
The Stealth Campaign That’s Getting Your Kids Hooked on Chess
Stella Schwartz, 16, hopped on the chess bandwagon earlier this year after hearing about the game from her older brother, Hugh, a high school senior...
Century-Old TB Vaccine Fails to Protect Against Covid
An old tuberculosis vaccine known to bolster the immune system did not prevent Covid infections among health care workers, scientists reported on Thursday. But the...
New Rules for Power Plants Could Give Carbon Capture a Boost. Here’s How.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to limit, for the first time, greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants could hinge on the ability of...
A Fresh View of an Increasingly Familiar Black Hole
A patch of pure nothing in a faraway galaxy has lately become the gravitational center of attention for radio astronomers. That would be a giant...
Kaiser Permanente to Acquire Geisinger
What’s Next: Regulatory Review Federal and state regulators must approve the deal. While Mr. Adams did not say what other health systems he might be...
Here Are the Places Most at Risk From Record-Shattering Heat
The news Global warming is making dangerously hot weather more common, and more extreme, on every continent. A new study by researchers in Britain takes...
Dragonflies, Beetles, Cicadas — What’s Not to Love?
This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences. Jessica Ware,...
Why Do Apes Like to Spin? Maybe for the Same Reasons as People.
In 2011, a gorilla named Zola gained internet fame when the Calgary Zoo posted a video that showed him spinning in circles on his knuckles...
La COVID-19 podría aumentar el riesgo de diabetes de tipo 2, según investigadores
Las personas contagiadas de coronavirus son mucho más propensas a que se les diagnostique diabetes tipo 2 en el año siguiente a su infección, en...
She Redefined Trauma. Then Trauma Redefined Her.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the fall of 1994, the psychiatrist Dr. Judith Herman was at the height of her influence. Her book “Trauma and Recovery,”...
Deimos, the Smallest Moon of Mars, May Not Be What It Seemed
Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars, might be a chip off the old block — quite literally. That’s the conclusion drawn by...