The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.The Biden administration sa... More »
Published52 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsFor Antarctic wildlife, exposure to the Sun's damaging rays has increased in recent years, scientists say. A hole in... More »
The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of.Federal regulators on Friday said that they had not yet discovered live bird flu virus in the first batch of retail milk samples they... More »
When I left the theater where I saw Challengers on Thursday night, two things were on my mind. (And exactly 42 questions, but I already wrote that story.) First, the fact that there wasn't any sex in this movie after all, which Zendaya explained rather batshit... More »
An international team of scientists has created the tree of life for almost 8,000 (about 60%) genera of flowering plants (angiosperms). This achievement sheds new light on the evolutionary history of flowering plants and their rise to ecological dominance on E... More »
Dairy cows at a farm in the USShutterstock / Roman Melnyk As a bird flu virus continues to spread among dairy cattle in the US, the country’s health agencies are actively preparing for the possibility of an outbreak in people. “The risk [of bird flu] remains l... More »
U.S. diplomacy to end the Gaza war and forge a new relationship with Saudi Arabia has been converging in recent weeks into a single giant choice for Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: What do you want more — Rafah or Riyadh?Do you want to mount a fu... More »
The Front Row“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” Is a Deceptively Plain MasterpieceJoanna Arnow and Scott Cohen in “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.”Photograph courtesy Magnolia PicturesSave this storySave this s... More »
The problem with Voyager 1 was first detected in November. At the time, NASA said it was still in contact with the spacecraft and could see that it was receiving signals from Earth. But what was being relayed back to mission controllers — including science dat... More »
In April 2024, the cicadas are starting to buzz. Reports of cicada broods emerging in the South of the U.S. are underway. The insect’s signature high-pitched and alarming sound has already led some people to call law enforcement in South Carolina to report a s... More »
Nearly a decade ago, HBO enthralled audiences with a true-crime docuseries titled The Jinx. The story followed Robert Durst, a wealthy New York City real estate heir suspected of three murders throughout his life. Two of the murders—the 1982 disappearance of h... More »
Very few, in fact: There have been fewer than 1,000 known cases since 1997 across the entire world, per the CDC. Translation? It's extremely rare for people to contract avian influenza.That said, Daisy May, MRCVS, a veterinary surgeon specializing in small ani... More »