June 20th
Southern officials warn of new clusters linked to bars and frat parties. Health officials fear tonight’s Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., could be a “superspreader” event. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Australia see the virus rebounding.
June 20th
The W.H.O. warns of a “new and dangerous phase” of the pandemic as cases rise in 81 countries. Face masks become a political flash point.
June 20th
As you mark the longest day of the year, consider the debate among astronomers over whether Earth’s tilt toward the sun helps make life on our world and others possible.
June 19th
Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations.
June 19th
She overcame a severe learning disability to become a scientist with “golden hands” and most recently a college instructor. She died of Covid-19.
June 19th
New research shows that the nectar-drinking birds use their enhanced color vision to distinguish sources of food.
June 19th
Pandemic fears have created interest in metallic products touting antimicrobial properties. But experts have doubts about the copper craze.
June 19th
Quarantine in the country means fresh air and space, but a writer’s sense of good fortune is darkened by the state of nature. “What I’m observing is unsettling,” she says.
June 19th
Disease experts said limited bursts of infections were likely to become part of the “new normal” for China.
June 19th
Suppliers and restaurants are scrambling after an outbreak in Beijing triggered fears that salmon may have spread it. Officials later absolved the fish of blame, but consumers are avoiding it anyway.
June 19th
DNA tests show an increase in the number of animals with positive tests for some coronaviruses from the time they are trapped until they arrive on someone’s dinner plate.
June 19th
The city of Beijing has tested 1.1 million people in less than a week and has halted many flights, but has not imposed the citywide lockdowns used in provincial outbreaks.
June 19th
Global cases are surging, with two days of record highs. California’s governor ordered people to wear masks in most indoor settings. Japan’s prime minister lifted a virus-related domestic travel ban.
June 19th
The shift, quietly disclosed on a government website, highlights how the Trump administration is favoring development of vaccines over treatments for the sickest patients.
June 19th
Even children are pressed into giving blood samples to build a sweeping genetic database that will add to Beijing’s growing surveillance capabilities, raising questions about abuse and privacy.
June 18th
Seven years ago, entrepreneurs planned trips to the stratosphere, but tourists never got off the ground. They’re trying again.
June 18th
A report on masks relied on unfounded assumptions, researchers charged, and the authors were permitted to choose their own reviewers.
June 18th
Hotter than normal temperatures are expected across almost all of the United States into September, government researchers said.
June 18th
Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears.
June 18th
The move was widely expected after The New York Times reported last month that the agency’s administrator had decided to effectively defy a court order.
June 18th
Women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have premature, underweight or stillborn babies, a look at 32 million U.S. births found.
June 18th
Some researchers interpret a new timeline of some of the formation’s biggest eruptions as evidence that its activity is waning.
June 18th
Michigan’s state of emergency will be extended. China’s best-known doctor said the authorities should give its centers for disease control more power, independence, expertise and money.
June 18th
Close contact at day and overnight camps can make it easy for disease to spread. Can programs adjust to keep children safe?
June 18th
In “Billion Dollar Burger,” Chase Purdy explores the “edible space race” to grow cell-cultured meat.
June 18th
The very earliest days of our lives, and our closest relationships, can offer clues about how we cope with adversity.
June 17th
An unusual combination of events caused the Weddell Sea to lose more sea ice than in recent years.
June 17th
Juan Orlando Hernández, who said his wife and two aides were also infected, joined a small crop of world leaders who have caught the virus that has reached into halls of power around the globe.
June 17th
Italy and Germany activated apps this week as tools to avoid a second wave of coronavirus infections, fueling a debate about privacy rights.
June 17th
In 1967, he identified a disease that causes heart inflammation in children, one that Covid-19 has brought back into the news.
June 17th
Researchers in Japan have developed a soap bubble-based pollination method that is as effective as doing it by hand.
June 17th
A steroid, dexamethasone, is the first drug shown to help save severely ill coronavirus patients, according to scientists in Britain.
June 17th
A new survey in five countries found significant support for stricter air quality regulations and enforcement of existing rules.
June 17th
A new study shows how turbulence from a toilet bowl can create a large plume that is potentially infectious to a bathroom’s next visitor.
June 17th
A football-size egg from Antarctica and baby dinosaurs from Mongolia and Argentina shine new light on ancient reptile reproduction.
June 17th
In one of Europe's most impressive Stone Age burial mounds, researchers found evidence of brother-sister incest that suggests the existence of a ruling elite.
June 17th
Do signals from beneath an Italian mountain herald a revolution in physics?
June 17th
Scientists at the University of Oxford say they have identified a drug that can reduce coronavirus-related deaths. The virus flares in Beijing. Officials in Tulsa, Okla., worry that President Trump’s planned rally could cause a spike.
June 17th
The front lines of the Covid-19 fight have shifted from I.C.U.s to wards where the sickest patients relearn how to walk and eat without choking.
June 16th
President Trump will hold his first campaign rally in months on Saturday in Oklahoma, where infections are rising, and officials there are pleading with him to cancel or hold it outdoors.
June 16th
Day laborers who lack adequate health care and housing are particularly vulnerable, as cases rise across the Americas.
June 16th
At first, people delayed medical care for fear of catching Covid. But as the pandemic caused staggering unemployment, medical care has become unaffordable for many.
June 16th
Neil Jacobs violated the agency’s scientific integrity policy with a statement last year backing the president’s inaccurate claim that a hurricane was headed for Alabama, a panel found.
June 16th
Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.
June 16th
The agency said that a review of some studies showed that the drugs’ potential benefits in treating Covid-19 did not outweigh the risks.
June 16th
Cash-starved states are forced to make massive job cuts. Reopenings for some restaurants and bars are short-lived amid new infections.
June 16th
Rescued from Australia’s fires, a small fleet of wild platypuses is launched back into their wetland home and into an uncertain future.
June 16th
It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure.
June 15th
Roughly 1.7 billion people have at least one of the underlying health conditions that can worsen cases of the coronavirus, a new analysis shows.
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