What Facing Cancer Taught Me About Fear
There’s something on the other side.To say I was afraid of mice is to put it mildly.I was terrified, not…
For Trump, PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Straws Are a Crisis. In Water, Maybe Less So.
An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap water nationwide…
What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger
Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.Do we…
David Paton, Creator of Flying Eye Hospital, Dies at 94
An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane…
The Trump Administration Wants Seafloor Mining. What Does That Mean?
A recent executive order would accelerate mining in little-understood undersea ecosystems.Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow,…
‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other…
F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs
After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts…
Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures
On March 11, about 50 judges gathered in Washington for the biannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, which oversees the…
Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures
A $56 million grant to train emergency responders and supply them with the overdose reversal spray, plus other programs that…
Trump vs. Science
We explain the administration’s cuts to research.Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President Trump hired to run the National Science Foundation…