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Anna Ornstein, Psychoanalyst Who Survived the Holocaust, Dies at 98

Anna Ornstein, Psychoanalyst Who Survived the Holocaust...

NYT > Science, Jul 4, 2025 - 21:54

Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychother...

The G.O.P. Policy Bill Would Shift U.S. Energy Policy

The G.O.P. Policy Bill Would Shift U.S. Energy Policy

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 3, 2025 - 23:51

The sprawling bill would boost fossil fuels and end tax credits for wind, solar ...

EPA Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work

EPA Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 3, 2025 - 23:51

In a public letter, employees of the Environmental Protection Agency accused the...

Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe

Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 3, 2025 - 21:00

Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharge...

How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Species They Are

How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Spec...

NYT > Science, Jul 3, 2025 - 21:00

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the c...

Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling Through Solar System

Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling...

NYT > Science, Jul 3, 2025 - 04:20

3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be...

Third Interstellar Object Enters the Solar System

Third Interstellar Object Enters the Solar System

NYT > Science, Jul 3, 2025 - 01:20

A11pI3Z is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered, and astronomers...

MethaneSAT, a Satellite Launched to Track Methane Emissions, Is Lost

MethaneSAT, a Satellite Launched to Track Methane Emiss...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 2, 2025 - 20:31

The spacecraft, MethaneSAT, was just a year into its mission to provide a cleare...

What to Know About the Heat Wave in Europe

What to Know About the Heat Wave in Europe

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 2, 2025 - 18:02

Weather agencies have warned of a third day of high temperatures that in some pl...

With Invasive Plant Species, Experts Say We Should Be More Proactive

With Invasive Plant Species, Experts Say We Should Be M...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 2, 2025 - 12:07

Experts want to combat new species of plants that are moving around within the U...

Sea Spiders Lack a Key Body Part and a Missing Gene Could Explain Why

Sea Spiders Lack a Key Body Part and a Missing Gene Cou...

NYT > Science, Jul 2, 2025 - 04:50

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their mos...

Trump’s Policy Bill Could Put the U.S. Further Behind China

Trump’s Policy Bill Could Put the U.S. Further Behind C...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 1, 2025 - 22:54

Republicans’ tax and policy bill could give China a bigger lead in the race to d...

New York Again Embraces Nuclear Power With Plans to Build New Plant

New York Again Embraces Nuclear Power With Plans to Bui...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 1, 2025 - 21:00

In her announcement, Gov. Kathy Hochul gave few details about where the plant wo...

Lucian Leape, Whose Work Spurred Patient Safety in Medicine, Dies at 94

Lucian Leape, Whose Work Spurred Patient Safety in Medi...

NYT > Science, Jul 1, 2025 - 20:03

Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to red...

An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life

An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, U...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 1, 2025 - 14:05

Brent Efron’s “boring” Tinder date wanted to hear all about his work at the Envi...

With Etch a Sketches and Apples, Math Is Revealed

With Etch a Sketches and Apples, Math Is Revealed

NYT > Science, Jul 1, 2025 - 10:32

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy...

A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Suggests

A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Sug...

NYT > Science, Jun 30, 2025 - 18:32

Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. Bu...

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 30, 2025 - 15:33

In a public letter, employees of the Environmental Protection Agency accused the...

Do I Really Need an Air Purifier?

Do I Really Need an Air Purifier?

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 30, 2025 - 12:34

We asked the experts how to decide.

Mike Lee’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback

Mike Lee’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback

NYT > Science, Jun 30, 2025 - 04:53

They love hunting, fishing and conservatism. And they hate a plan by a conservat...

A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill

A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Polic...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 29, 2025 - 06:23

Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said he would withdraw his proposal after ...

Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.

Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.

NYT > Science, Jun 28, 2025 - 19:25

Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an...

Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew After Trump Quit 2015 Accord

Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew Aft...

NYT > Science, Jun 28, 2025 - 16:22

Nuclear experts say the president’s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him...

Stars Passing Near the Sun Could Cause Planets to Collide or Be Ejected, Paper Says

Stars Passing Near the Sun Could Cause Planets to Colli...

NYT > Science, Jun 28, 2025 - 12:30

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Ea...

Max Fink, Champion of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Dies at 102

Max Fink, Champion of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Dies a...

NYT > Science, Jun 28, 2025 - 01:21

As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spe...

Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline

Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline

NYT > Science, Jun 27, 2025 - 19:32

The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hur...

Orcas Use Kelp as a Possible Grooming Tool

Orcas Use Kelp as a Possible Grooming Tool

NYT > Science, Jun 27, 2025 - 12:33

In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest we...

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 27, 2025 - 10:32

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road cons...

RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines

RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some...

NYT > Science, Jun 27, 2025 - 00:30

Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providi...

An Ode to Joy, in Climate Action

An Ode to Joy, in Climate Action

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 26, 2025 - 23:22

Climate change is often unrelentingly grim. But some activists argue that joyful...

Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation

Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws ...

NYT > Science, Jun 26, 2025 - 22:30

Mexican environmental activists say detritus raining down from Elon Musk’s rocke...

Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling the Effects

Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling ...

NYT > Science, Jun 26, 2025 - 19:33

Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s.

Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes

Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes

NYT > Science, Jun 26, 2025 - 12:34

Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patter...

How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions

How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions

NYT > Science, Jun 26, 2025 - 12:34

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an o...

The Volunteer Groups Preparing for a Post-FEMA World

The Volunteer Groups Preparing for a Post-FEMA World

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 26, 2025 - 12:34

As the Trump administration threatens to dismantle FEMA, military veterans and o...

Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies at 73

Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies...

NYT > Science, Jun 25, 2025 - 22:30

He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked w...

N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants

N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Gr...

NYT > Science, Jun 25, 2025 - 22:30

The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that quest...

Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language?

Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language?

NYT > Science, Jun 25, 2025 - 21:31

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new...

Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log

Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a H...

NYT > Science, Jun 25, 2025 - 21:31

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient h...

RFK Jr.’s Handpicked Vaccine Advisers Are Set to Meet for the First Time

RFK Jr.’s Handpicked Vaccine Advisers Are Set to Meet f...

NYT > Science, Jun 25, 2025 - 18:34

The panelists will review measles vaccine recommendations and discuss a preserva...

In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild

In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 25, 2025 - 03:23

Kyle Lybarger built a loyal following online by talking about native plants and ...

How Heat Waves Can Worsen Air Quality

How Heat Waves Can Worsen Air Quality

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 24, 2025 - 22:30

Scientists are increasingly concerned about the ways extreme heat and air pollut...

Extreme Heat Is Exacerbating Air Pollution, a ‘Double Whammy’ for Health

Extreme Heat Is Exacerbating Air Pollution, a ‘Double W...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 24, 2025 - 18:33

Extreme heat is making air pollution worse, scientists say. And President Trump’...

This Reviled Pest Is the Unsung Hero of Every Major City in the World

This Reviled Pest Is the Unsung Hero of Every Major Cit...

NYT > Science, Jun 24, 2025 - 12:33

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins.

Vera Rubin Observatory Reveals Telescope’s First Images of Galaxies, Nebulas and Asteroids

Vera Rubin Observatory Reveals Telescope’s First Images...

NYT > Science, Jun 23, 2025 - 21:01

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new a...

Vera Rubin Telescope Quickly Found 1,200 New Asteroids

Vera Rubin Telescope Quickly Found 1,200 New Asteroids

NYT > Science, Jun 23, 2025 - 19:02

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in...

Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images

Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images

NYT > Science, Jun 23, 2025 - 07:25

Scenes from nebulas in the Milky Way and a cluster of galaxies are a teaser of h...

‘Jaws’ at 50: Scientists Are Still Studying the Mysteries of Sharks

‘Jaws’ at 50: Scientists Are Still Studying the Mysteri...

NYT > Science, Jun 21, 2025 - 12:30

The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a gen...

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of...

NYT > Science, Jun 21, 2025 - 02:20

Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer...

This Hurricane Season Is One of the Slowest to Start in 20 Years

This Hurricane Season Is One of the Slowest to Start in...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jun 20, 2025 - 19:31

The Atlantic season began officially on June 1. Three weeks in, there still hasn...