E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats
The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra…
Lovebugs Swarm South Korea’s Capital, Drawing Residents’ Ire
Municipal workers in the South Korean capital region are responding to a summer infestation by spraying water, but residents wish…
Third Interstellar Object Enters the Solar System
A11pI3Z is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered, and astronomers can’t say yet whether it is a comet…
291 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT…
Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots
Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.The…
Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers…
Sea Spiders Lack a Key Body Part and a Missing Gene Could Explain Why
Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.The knotty…
Anne Merriman, ‘Mother of Palliative Care’ in Uganda, Dies at 90
A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing…
Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Ends Many Clean Energy Credits
By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own…
National Climate Report Website Goes Dark
The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.A screenshot of globalchange.gov from June 29, archived by…