Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed
For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell…
Amid Devastating Winter Losses, Another Threat Looms For U.S. Beekeepers
Every January, Charles Linder travels from Illinois to Idaho to retrieve thousands of bee hives from a temperature-controlled storage facility.…
Arizona Governor Seeks Investigation of Federal Handling of Grand Canyon Fire
Gov. Katie Hobbs questioned why the U.S. government decided to manage the Dragon Bravo fire, which started with a lightning…
Snakes Use Smelly Musk to Keep Ants Out of Their Pants
Forget fangs full of venom — the backsides of serpents pack secretions volatile enough to kill insect invaders.A writhing ball…
Apollo-Soyuz 50th Anniversary: A Handshake in Orbit That Transformed the Space Race
Some 140 miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts from…
South African AIDS Activist Pushes for H.I.V. Treatment Access After U.S.-Aid Cuts
The activists gathered on the steps of the cathedral in the center of Cape Town. Most were older women, faces…
Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92
He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state…
Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say
Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash…
Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot
The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project.Have you ever searched for…
Ben Jealous, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure
Ben Jealous, who joined the environmental group in 2023, has clashed with some employees and the organization’s union.Ben Jealous, the…