Live Video: Watch the Launch of India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission
India is on its way back to the moon after a rocket lifted off from Sriharikota, a launch site off...
Coronavirus Spread Widely in Deer, and Perhaps Back to People, U.S.D.A. Says
Why It Matters: Deer could be a source of new variants. There is no evidence that deer play a major role in spreading the virus to humans,...
Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon’s Far Side
The rocks beneath an ancient volcano on the moon’s far side remain surprisingly warm, scientists have revealed using data from orbiting...
How Mistaken Identity and One Bullet Revealed a Star Predator Far From Home
The rustling in the brush was loud, so Brian Christman raised his muzzleloader for the deer he...
F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the...
Drowning Is No. 1 Killer of Young Children. U.S. Efforts to Fix It Are Lagging.
Yadira Salcedo was born in Mexico to parents who did not know how to swim. As a child, she nearly drowned when she waded too deep in a...
Racism and Sexism Underlie Higher Maternal Death Rates for Black Women, U.N. Says
Medical school curriculums, for example, include erroneous claims that Black women’s nerve...
A Sea Otter Is Stealing Surfboards Near Santa Cruz, California
For the past few summers, numerous surfers in Santa Cruz, Calif., have been victims of a crime at sea: boardjacking. The culprit is a...
Who Employs Your Doctor? Increasingly, a Private Equity Firm.
In recent years, private equity firms have been gobbling up physician practices to form powerful medical groups across the country,...
Antibiotic Shortage Could Fuel Rise in Syphilis Rates
A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial to the fight against syphilis is alarming infectious...
