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Gun deaths surged during the pandemic’s first year, the C.D.C. reports.
Gun deaths reached the highest number ever recorded in the United States in 2020, the first year of the pandemic,…
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Science
An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn
In August 2021, a research team was documenting biodiversity near the Tijamuchi River in Bolivia when they saw some animals…
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World
Philip J. Hilts, 74, Dies; Reporter Exposed a Big-Tobacco Cover-up
Philip J. Hilts, who as a science reporter for The New York Times in 1994 exposed a tobacco company’s decades-long…
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World
Peter Swales, Who Startled Freud Scholarship, Dies at 73
Peter Swales, a self-taught scholar who shook up the cloistered world of Freudian studies with brash research and theories that…
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Health
Scientists Question Data Behind an Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug
A small biotech company that trumpeted an exciting new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is now under fire for irregularities in…
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Science
New DNA Analysis Supports an Unrecognized Tribe’s Ancient Roots in California
In “The Handbook of the Indians of California,” published in 1925, the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber pronounced the Ohlone people “extinct…
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Science
The Search for a Model Octopus That Won’t Die After Laying Its Eggs
The tank looked empty, but turning over a shell revealed a hidden octopus no bigger than a Ping-Pong ball. She…
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World
Cuts in Britain Could Cause a Covid Data Drought
The British government on Friday shut down or scaled back a number of its Covid surveillance programs, curtailing the collection…
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World
Margaret M. McGowan, Who Expanded the Field of Dance History, Dies at 90
Margaret M. McGowan, a British cultural historian who created a new international area of academic study, now known as early…
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U.S.
Democrats Agree to Pay $113,000 to Settle Campaign Spending Inquiry
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic Party have agreed to pay $113,000 in fines to settle…
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