‘This Does Not Look Good for Children’: Fires Pose Risk to Young Lungs
SAN FRANCISCO — Ian MacDonald, a 14-year-old in Portland, Ore., got a treat from his parents the other day. He was allowed to go outside....
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Coronavirus May Increase Premature Births, Studies Suggest
Pregnant women who are infected with the coronavirus and hospitalized are at risk for developing serious complications, and may face an elevated risk for delivering...
Meet a Bee With a Very Big Brain
This is Panurgus banksianus, the large shaggy bee. It lives alone, burrowed into sandy grasslands across Europe. It prefers to feed on yellow-flowered members of...
Australia’s Stinging Trees: Please Do Not Pet Them
The lore that shrouds Australia’s giant stinging trees, of the genus Dendrocnide, is perhaps as dubious as it is vast. Tales abound of nightmarish encounters...
The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think
Public fascination with the Vikings runs high these days, with several current television series available for bloody binge-watching. But the Vikings have never really gone...
Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care
Hospitals across the country are charging private insurance companies 2.5 times what they get from Medicare for the same care, according to a new RAND...
The Search for Life on Venus Could Start With Rocket Lab
Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars with his rocket company SpaceX. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, wants a trillion people living in space. But...
When These Sea Anemones Eat, It Goes Straight to Their Arms
People have a lot of strategies for dealing with the effects of large meals — constitutionals, antacids, workouts, naps. Starlet sea anemones have found a...
Missions to Venus: Highlights From History, and When We May Go Back
Carl Sagan once said that Venus is the planet in our solar system most like hell. So when are we going back? Astronomers on Monday...
Life on Venus? Astronomers See Phosphine Signal in Its Clouds
High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life. If the discovery is confirmed...