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At a news conference on Thursday announcing the settlement, the attorneys general from Massachusetts, New York and Minnesota pointedly noted that they had asked the Sacklers for years to admit culpability and to apologize, but that family…

The name of the boat is Truth, which is just one of the juicy details in Joshua Zeman's nautical documentary "The Loneiest Whale: The Search for 52". Another is a coda that the audience will appreciate staying for.The whale in question -…

Dr. Lewontin was amazed at the harmfulness of sexism, even among his allegedly high-minded colleagues. "When speaking in front of an academic audience about the biological determination of social status, I have repeatedly tried the…

Dr. Peleg and Dr. Sarfati placed two cameras 13 feet apart on the ground with an overlapping field of view. Like producers on a film set, they calibrated the feeds with a chessboard and an initial artificial light signal. The…

“It puts us in a bad place,” agreed Dr. Karina Bishop, a geriatrician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Ethically, she added, “if this drug was available right now, I would not feel able to prescribe it.”Even as individual…

Last month was the warmest June on record in North America, researchers said Wednesday, confirming the suspicions of millions of people who endured some of the hottest temperatures ever experienced on the continent.The Copernicus Climate…

As the Delta variant takes over the world, researchers are tracking how well vaccines protect against it - and getting different answers.In the UK, researchers reported in May that two doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine had 88 percent…

When a barrage of charged protons and electrons approaches us from the sun, the earth's magnetic field cleverly steers them around the planet. This flutter creates shimmering, glowing curtains of color known as the Aurora Borealis in the…

Jill Laidlaw has worked at Camp Cavell in Lexington, Michigan, a tiny paradise on Lake Huron, for 37 years. But she saw problems in paradise: climate change.Michigan temperatures have risen an average of two to three degrees over the past…

Sales have plunged by $500 million. The work force has been cut by three-quarters. Operations in 14 countries have been abandoned. Many state and local lobbying campaigns have been shut down.Juul Labs, the once high-flying e-cigarette…