The Environmental Protection Agency plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution that experts have said is not scientifically sound.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn its decision to approve two drugs for orange and grapefruit trees, the E.P.A. largely ignored objections from the C.D.C. and the F.D.A., which fear that expanding their use in cash crops could fuel antibiotic resistance in humans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTo make enough money for interplanetary journeys, Elon Musk’s company hopes to provide high-speed internet all over the world.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSurgeons cured Tiger Woods’s back on the fourth try — with plenty of help from Woods himself. But fusion surgery provides no guarantees of success.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt’s a common trope in science fiction, but hives in nature are not dependent on any central node for their function.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe New York Times photographer Josh Haner has spent the past four years capturing the effects of climate change around the world and under water.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAn Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo — the second-largest in history — is escalating in part because locals don’t trust health workers and government officials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSo-called ‘heartbeat’ legislation restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy has started a conversation about when most women actually learn that they’re pregnant.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFor physicist Elisabetta Matsumoto, “knitting is coding,” and yarn is a programmable material.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe E.P.A.’s inspector general found that Mr. Pruitt, the former head of the agency, had spent funds “without sufficient justification.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA new survey of remote islands off the coast of Australia found mountains of plastic weighing as much as a blue whale.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWith the help of a trained panel of sniffers, chemists uncovered the molecules that give a rich treat its scents.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Cuomo administration must decide before Thursday whether to approve a new natural gas pipeline that environmentalists say would harm the area’s waters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareScientists are racing to treat brain disabilities with electrical stimulation. Here’s a metaphor to help make sense of the progress.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe funds would help accelerate the agency’s schedule for returning astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWorms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe rise of the more potent fentanyl in its place has put a generation of older users, who had managed their addiction, at far greater risk of overdose.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFacebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won’t solve everything.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt’s not just Party City. Everyone is running out of helium. Part of the problem is that it’s so difficult to store.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn her writings and lectures, she postulated that the human race was on the brink of an enhanced way of existing and could bring about great things.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNew research found that those aged 18 to 25 believe theirs is the most narcissistic and entitled living generation. But that doesn’t make it true.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe “vaccine symposium” in Rockland County was denounced by health authorities and some ultra-Orthodox rabbis, who said the speakers were spreading dangerous propaganda.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAn African swine fever outbreak that had been centered in China is rapidly spreading to neighboring countries, pushing up prices of pork, a staple in many Asian nations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA state jury’s award for a Northern California couple followed awards in separate cases in March and August, and was the largest by far.
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