Science Updates

3 years 30 weeks ago Covid-19 Live Updates: U.K. Moves to Impose Harsher Fines on Rule Breakers Serious breaches of coronavirus restrictions could be punished with penalties of more than $10,000 as the British government tries to avoid another national lockdown. Russia’s vaccine rollout is off to a slow start.
3 years 30 weeks ago How California Became Ground Zero for Climate Disasters The engineering and land management that enabled the state’s tremendous growth have left it more vulnerable to climate shocks — and those shocks are getting worse.
3 years 30 weeks ago The Pros and Cons of Being a Hammerhead Shark A new study suggests that the ocean’s strangest-looking headgear is difficult to tote around.
3 years 30 weeks ago AstraZeneca, Under Fire for Vaccine Safety, Releases Trial Blueprints Experts are concerned that the company has not been more forthcoming about two participants who became seriously ill after getting its experimental vaccine.
3 years 30 weeks ago Covid-19 Live Updates A surge of infections in the Southwest and the Midwest is partly driving an uptick in cases nationally. The eight remaining members of the Supreme Court are expected to hear arguments next month via telephone.
3 years 30 weeks ago Capturing the Faces of Climate Migration A Times Magazine series examines how climate change will force millions worldwide to move. Recently, Meridith Kohut photographed people on the front lines of this shift. In America.
3 years 30 weeks ago Mount Wilson Observatory, Icon of Cosmology, 'Declared Safe' From Fires The birthplace of modern cosmology “has been declared safe” from the wildfires that have ravaged the surrounding area in Southern California.
3 years 30 weeks ago In South Korea, Covid-19 Comes With Another Risk: Online Bullies The country’s extensive response has been praised around the world but has led to harassment and slander, raising questions about privacy protections.
3 years 30 weeks ago On Venus, Cloudy With a Chance of Microbial Life Astrobiologists shift their gaze, and speculations, to Earth’s broiling sister planet.
3 years 30 weeks ago After Criticism, C.D.C. Reverses Covid-19 Guidelines on Testing People Who Were Exposed President Trump acknowledged that an authorized vaccine for “every American” may not be distributed until next year. An Iranian official says the country has become a “red zone” as cases and deaths surge.
3 years 30 weeks ago Sometimes Food Fights Back When a species of microalgae gets inside a zooplankton that feeds on it, it smothers the grazer’s eggs and disrupts reproduction.
3 years 30 weeks ago Exhume President Warren G. Harding? Family Feuds in Court DNA evidence is persuasive that James Blaesing, 70, is the grandson of the 29th president and his mistress. But his cousins are upset by his plan to exhume Harding’s remains with a reality TV crew.
3 years 30 weeks ago Cyclone Ianos, a Rare 'Medicane,' Batters Ionian Islands of Greece Ianos, a rare hurricane-strength Mediterranean storm, slammed into Greece’s western islands, bringing lashing rain and gales.
3 years 30 weeks ago Covid-19 News: Live Updates The country becomes one of the few to impose a second nationwide lockdown. In the U.S., Joe Biden tries to focus the campaign on President Trump’s virus performance.
3 years 30 weeks ago Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care The gap between rates set for private insurers and employers vs. those by the federal government stirs the debate over a government-run health plan.
3 years 30 weeks ago The Wildfires: What I Saw When Australia Burned At one point, the wildfires that country experienced seemed to fade from our memory. Not anymore. And what I witnessed there has shaped my thoughts on what’s raging here.
3 years 30 weeks ago Covid-19 News: Live Updates Speaker Nancy Pelosi is digging in on her demands for $2.2 trillion in pandemic relief as stimulus talks remain at loggerheads. Lockdowns are spreading again in Europe.
3 years 30 weeks ago John Najarian, Pioneering Transplant Surgeon, Dies at 92 He was known for taking on difficult cases, many involving children. An anti-rejection drug he developed led to a scandal, but he was vindicated.
3 years 30 weeks ago When Will You Be Able to Get a Coronavirus Vaccine? Despite the president’s repeated claims that a vaccine will be available in October, scientists, companies and federal officials all say that most people won’t get one until well into next year.
3 years 30 weeks ago Moderna Shares the Blueprint for Its Coronavirus Vaccine Trial The company hopes to earn the trust of the public and of scientists who have clamored for details of its study.
3 years 30 weeks ago A New Ship’s Mission: Let the Deep Sea Be Seen A giant new vessel, OceanXplorer, seeks to unveil the secrets of the abyss for a global audience.
3 years 30 weeks ago Live Covid-19 Tracker President Trump urged Republicans to “go for the much higher numbers” in stalled negotiations over another economic recovery package, undercutting his party’s push for a bare-bones plan.
3 years 30 weeks ago Covid-19 Vaccines Will Be Free for Americans, Warp Speed Officials Say Despite the president’s statements about military involvement in the vaccine rollout, officials said that for most people, “there will be no federal official who touches any of this vaccine.”
3 years 30 weeks ago Meet a Bee With a Very Big Brain New research suggests there is a relationship between the diversity of a bee’s diet and the size of its croissant-shaped brain.
3 years 30 weeks ago Australia's Stinging Trees: Please Do Not Pet Them Scientists have found a potent chemical that might give Australian giant stinging trees their extraordinarily painful punch.