U.S. Moves Russian Scientist’s Case to Criminal Court in Boston
For months, the Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova has challenged efforts to deport her to her native Russia for a customs…
New N.I.H. Policy Threatens Global Science Collaborations
Restrictions on payments to foreign partners may jeopardize studies of cancer and other conditions that would benefit Americans.One of the…
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
Something was very wrong with Kyle and Nicole Muldoon’s baby.The doctors speculated. Maybe it was meningitis? Maybe sepsis?They got an…
Trump Budget Cuts Hobble Antismoking Programs
Students at Wyoming East High School in West Virginia’s coal country had different reasons for joining Raze, a state program…
Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports
The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to…
U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained Feb. 16 at Logan Airport after failing to declare scientific samples she carried…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Spotted a Northern Lights-Like Green Glow
The northern lights are fleeting and fantastical. But Elise Wright Knutsen, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oslo, has…
Richard L. Garwin, a Creator of the Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 97
Many scientists contributed to the final result, but he was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s…
Fossil Suggests Feathered Archaeopteryx Probably Flew Like a Chicken
New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as the…
Trump Administration to Weaken Some Limits on PFAS in Drinking Water
The E.P.A. said it would maintain limits on the two most common PFAS chemicals found in tap water but roll…