America is under attack, and the weapon of choice is disguised as a shopping app on your phone. Temu, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has lured millions of Americans with its promise of unbeatable prices and convenience. But behind the flashy deals lies a dark r... More »
Health A scientist tested knock-off Ozempic sold online. He found dangerous ingredients and doses — and got scammed out of money. ... More »
The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction.OpenAI said on Friday that it had discovered and disrupted an Iranian influence campaign that used the company’s generative artificial intelligence technologies to spread misin... More »
Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets and people at risk.Trupanion, a Seattle-based pet insurance company, is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Preve... More »
When fire engulfed Lahaina last year, some of the older structures that burned contained canec, a historic Hawaiian-made building material made of solid sugarcane waste and potentially harmful inorganic arsenic.To date, the US army corps of engineers (USACE) h... More »
Space exploration has long been a staple of sci-fi films and TV, from the epic battles in Star Wars to gardening on the Red Planet in The Martian. However, many play fast and loose with the laws of physics, and scientific fact often couldn’t be further from th... More »
Since there's no single way to define "largest," we've collected some of the most impressive, from the tallest waterfalls, to the widest, to the admittedly subjective "most spectacular." Traditionally Tallest Waterfall: Angel Falls ... More »
The U.S. women's national team is back at No. 1. After going on a stellar Olympic run to break a 12-year gold medal drought, the USWNT has retaken the top slot in the updated FIFA rankings released on Friday.The change comes after the U.S. spent months at its ... More »
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed exactly two years ago, was pitched as a policy that puts the “middle class first”. But the spending bill’s residential tax credits have so far disproportionately benefited wealthy families, new data indicates.That’s a ... More »
Covid continues surging across the US, but deaths are lower than their peaks earlier in the pandemic due in large part to vaccinations and immunity. Yet the country is still struggling to find its footing on vaccination as the virus settles into a pattern of t... More »
It’s a quiet force that contributes to a sameness across the country and to climate change.One force has quietly shaped much of the world around us — our homes, our offices, the look of our cities, the migration patterns of Americans and the economic fortunes ... More »
A review of the Trump team’s critique of our surveys, and the surprising fact that a lot of people don’t remember how they voted.Do you remember whom you voted for in 2020? Not everyone does. Mark Makela for The New York TimesLast week’s New York Times/Siena C... More »