Topics for the water cooler and then some
September 1, 2020
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The New York-based scientist overcame sexism and personal tragedy to make major contributions to the field, for which she received recognition this year.
By Kenneth Chang
Jonathan J. Gottlieb
A trove of Phoenician artifacts was long ascribed to a single shipwreck. More likely they were tossed overboard, and over centuries, a new study suggests.
By Joshua Rapp Learn
Anang Dianto
The animal was believed to have disappeared from the highlands of New Guinea, but was found on the island’s Indonesian side.
By James Gorman
Rosatom
A Russian nuclear energy agency released formerly classified footage of the Soviet Union’s 1961 Tsar Bomba test.
By William J. Broad
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THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times
Impatient for a coronavirus vaccine, dozens of scientists around the world are giving themselves — and sometimes, friends and family — their own unproven versions.
By Heather Murphy
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Parents are wrestling with difficult choices over sending their children to school. Here’s how one science reporter made the decision.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
“How to Stop the Next Pandemic,” a Times documentary, reveals how your choices make future pandemics more likely.
By Jonah M. Kessel
Johnny Milano for The New York Times
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.
Luca Sola/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Dozens of research groups around the world are playing the long game, convinced that their experimental vaccines will be cheaper and more powerful than the ones leading the race today.
By Carl Zimmer
Jim Davis/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images
A February meeting of biotech executives became a coronavirus “superspreading” event with a transmission chain across the globe.
Women produce a more powerful immune response than do men, a new study finds.
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Many children may learn of a grandparent’s death without a chance to visit to say goodbye.
By Perri Klass, M.D.
MORE SCIENCE NEWS
Martin Kundrát
While many fossils have been flattened by time and the elements, a titanosaur found in an egg was preserved in three dimensions.
By Lucas Joel
Crystal Shin
In the tusks of creatures that lived before dinosaurs, paleontologists found signs of hibernation-like metabolism.
Witold Skrypczak/Alamy
Years of observations in central Italy show that more carbon dioxide percolates through Earth’s crust during periods of strong seismic activity.
By Katherine Kornei
Leonardi Lab
A species of insect tags along with elephant seals as they spend months at sea, enduring the crushing pressure changes of the mammals’ dives.
By Priyanka Runwal
The influx of whales to cleaner waters off New York City has meant that the number of them injured or killed there is on the rise.
By Annie Roth
Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya’s rules on plastics and on imports of American trash.
By Hiroko Tabuchi, Michael Corkery and Carlos Mureithi
The agency weakened Obama-era rules meant to keep metals and other pollution out of rivers and streams, saving industry tens of millions of dollars.
By Lisa Friedman
Using tax dollars to move whole communities out of flood zones, an idea long dismissed as radical, is swiftly becoming policy, marking a new and more disruptive phase of climate change.
By Christopher Flavelle
HEALTH
Houston Cofield for The New York Times
Experts have long predicted that psychotherapy was poised to go virtual. The pandemic may prove them right.
By Benedict Carey
Aaron Favila/Associated Press
Your brain’s powers of facial recognition are going to need some time to get used to the coverings we’re wearing to keep each other healthy.
By Elizabeth Preston
Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press
The cancer that killed Chadwick Boseman is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and rates are rising among younger people.
By Pam Belluck
Gracia Lam
The problem, a brief but precipitous drop in blood pressure that causes lightheadedness or dizziness when standing up, is called orthostatic hypotension.
By Jane E. Brody
Sarahbeth Maney for The New York Times
Common conditions often manifest differently on dark skin. Yet physicians are trained mostly to diagnose them on white skin.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
In dozens of other patients who suppress the virus without drugs, it seems to have been cornered in parts of the genome where it cannot reproduce, scientists reported.
Ayahuasca, a vomit-inducing hallucinogenic brew, draws thousands of people each year — including former soldiers — to jungle retreats that have become an unlicensed and unregulated mental health marketplace.
By Ernesto Londoño and Adam Ferguson
A federal agency is resurrecting a version of Predict, a scientific network that for a decade watched for new pathogens dangerous to humans. Joe Biden has also vowed to fund the effort.
By Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Thomas Kaplan
A number of schools found the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease in their water, and experts say more should expect to see it.
By Max Horberry
phys ed
Two new studies of elite athletes found that working out amplifies the immune response to a flu shot.
By Gretchen Reynolds
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