Wyoming’s Constitution guarantees a right to make individual health care decisions. The new ban attempts to circumvent that right by declaring that abortion is not health care.
The latest list of approved labels for asteroids includes nods to three more scholars of the order, as well as a pope, challenging the idea that science and religion make awkward partners.
A Senate homeland security committee examined growing health care shortages amid reports of rationing within hospitals.
His work helped break down the chemical structures of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, to figure out how cannabis makes users high.
One of the first people to receive a graduate degree in the field, Dr. Wulf helped to adapt an early Pentagon communications web into the network that eventually grew into the internet.
For decades, new plants have been blocked by powerful local interests, the owners of hot spring resorts, that say the sites threaten a centuries-old tradition.
As local data sources become less reliable, The Times will instead report information collected by the C.D.C. on its virus tracking pages.
It was the latest instance of marine mammals being found dead on the state’s beaches, raising concerns among residents over what might be the cause.
Older climate activists gathered in cities around the country for a day of action targeting banks that finance fossil fuel projects.
In an interview with The Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy ascribed the mental health challenges among young people in part to “hustle culture” values.
Current and former employees recall rising desperation as Trump administration officials squelched research into the new coronavirus.
Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that health officials hoped to contain is now in more than half the 50 states, according to a new research paper.
A new report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.
A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.
Chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station, moved at 17,000 miles per hour, making for a nighttime spectacle.
The growing season has become completely reversed thanks to kerosene-burning greenhouses and the big prices paid for the earliest, best berries.
The law is the only one in the nation to prohibit the use separate from an overall abortion ban and is part of a growing effort by conservative states to target the pills.
Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the coronavirus may have sprung from a seafood market in Wuhan. Now the data are missing from a scientific database.
The monogamous, hibernating canids, which are related to foxes, are sold for meat and fur.
The New England Aquarium is raising 18 baby sea dragons after a successful and rare breeding event. The baby dragons, who look too much alike to have names, will go on display this summer.
Three hundred goldfish in a hospital basement, a suckermouth at the airport: When fish are in crisis, a Bronx beautician and a partner in Pennsylvania ride to the rescue.
Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them.
