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A New Genetic Test Takes Aim at Young Hearts

Despite the high hopes for the new tests, there are many questions.Some critics say that a focus on treating younger people is misplaced...

The United Arab Emirates Is Heading for the 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...

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...

You’ve Never Heard of Him, but He’s Remaking the Pollution Fight

This spring the Biden administration proposed or implemented eight major environmental regulations, including the nation’s toughest climate rule, rolling out what experts say...

Maternity’s Most Dangerous Time: After New Mothers Come Home

Sherri Willis-Prater’s baby boy was 2 months old, and she was about to return to her job at a school cafeteria in Chicago....

Complications After Delivery: What Women Need to Know

After a woman gives birth, the baby’s well-being usually becomes the focus of family attention, and the mother’s health often recedes as a...

Ketamine Shows Promise for Hard-to-Treat Depression in New Study

A new study suggests that, for some patients, the anesthetic ketamine is a promising alternative to electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, currently one of...

Japanese Moon Lander Crashed Because of a 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...

Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?

Costello the octopus was napping while stuck to the glass of his tank at the Rockefeller University in New York. He snoozed quietly...

Just Between Us Squirrels, There Might Be Trouble in the Arctic Dating Scene

Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a problem, too.According to...

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