Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling
The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on ...
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Judge Extends Block on N.I.H. Medical Research Cuts
A federal judge on Friday agreed to extend an order blocking the National Institutes of Health from reducing grant funding ...
Is This Common Herbicide Harming Your Health?
As part of his pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to build ...
Scientists Describe Rare Syndrome Following Covid Vaccinations
The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may ...
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows there are three primary states of matter: solid, liquid and ...
Trillions of Viruses Live in Your Body. A.I. Is Trying to Find Them.
The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to ...
Do Women Need More Sleep Than Men?
Q: I’ve heard that women need several hours more sleep per night than men do. Is this true?If you browse ...
Is Fake Meat Better for You Than Real Meat?
You’ve probably heard these two bits of nutrition advice: Eat more plants, and cut back on ultraprocessed foods.So where does ...
Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54
Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers — ...
NIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 Billion
Federal research funding to tackle areas like cancer, diabetes and heart disease is lagging by about $1 billion behind the ...
After Abortion Bans, Infant Mortality and Births Increased, Research Finds
Infant mortality increased along with births in most states with abortion bans in the first 18 months after the Supreme ...
Ozempic Can Curb Drinking, New Research Shows
Some people who take drugs like Ozempic have noticed a surprising but welcome side effect: They drink less.A paper published ...
Top N.I.H. Official Abruptly Resigns as Trump Orders Deep Cuts
The No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health abruptly resigned and retired from government service on Tuesday, in ...
Working the Night Shift? Here’s How to Take Care of Yourself.
When Samantha Shaw took a new job as a research technician for a sleep-related study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...
How Did DeepSeek Build Its A.I. With Less Money?
Last month, U.S. financial markets tumbled after a Chinese start-up called DeepSeek said it had built one of the world’s ...
Court Halt on Trump Cuts for Medical Research Is Extended Nationwide
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to hold off on a plan that would cut $4 billion in federal ...
Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research
A little over a year ago, a group of researchers at Sheffield Hallam University in England published a report documenting ...
Should Dinner Be the Smallest Meal of the Day?
Q: I’ve heard that it’s bad for dinner to be your biggest meal of the day. Is that true?The maxim ...
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same
With TV cameras pointed at her, Felisa Wolfe-Simon began speaking at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2010.“I’ve ...
What DeepSeek’s Success Tells Us About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent
To many Chinese, DeepSeek’s success is a victory for China’s education system, proof that it equals that of the United ...
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