A ‘Nerve Center’ for Climate in the Biden White House
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. assumes the presidency on Wednesday with an expansive team…
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Court Voids a ‘Tortured’ Trump Climate Rollback
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration’s plan to…
Finally in 3-D: A Dinosaur’s All-Purpose Orifice
The world’s oldest known all-purpose orifice sits in a fossil display case in the Senckenberg…
A Surprise in a 50 Million-Year-Old Assassin Bug Fossil: Its Genitals
Much less is known about the lifestyle of assassin bugs of yore, of which only…
Supreme Court Case Could Limit Future Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Industry
Baltimore’s acting city solicitor, Dana P. Moore, said that the city filed its lawsuit in…
A Bitter Archaeological Feud Over an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos
The disk is small — just 12 inches in diameter — but it has loomed…
Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses
Two of the knots, they concluded, were probably small galaxies with small internal motions being…
Martinus Veltman, Who Made Key Contribution in Physics, Dies at 89
Martinus J.G. Veltman, a Dutch theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for work…
Egypt Denied an Oxygen Failure Killed Covid Patients. We Found That It Did.
EL HUSSEINEYA, Egypt — A cry pierced the night from the balcony of an Egyptian…
Twins with Covid Help Scientists Untangle the Disease’s Genetic Roots
What Ms. Burkett and Ms. Miller experienced wasn’t the norm. Many of the conditions that…