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WASHINGTON — On the Chinese coast, just 135 miles from Taiwan, Beijing is preparing to start a new reactor the Pentagon sees as delivering fuel for a vast expansion of China’s nuclear...

OBSERVATORIO LAS CAMPANAS, Chile — Caminar entre los domos del observatorio del desierto de Atacama es como si tu cabellera rozara las estrellas.El desierto de Atacama, una meseta en lo alto de...

People infected with the coronavirus were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes within a year of their infection, compared with those who had not been exposed to the...

The NewsThe Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved an additional round of bivalent booster shots for adults who are 65 and over as well as people with compromised immune systems. The...

LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, Chile — To walk among the observatory domes of the Atacama Desert is to brush your hair with the stars.The Atacama, on a plateau high in the Chilean Andes,...

Some events are simply too big for us to fathom. Bird migration, for instance, happens twice a year on a planetary scale that bruises the brain, so we’re forced to look for...

When a freight train carrying more than 100,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals derailed and burned in East Palestine, Ohio, this year, it set off a panic over rail safety and the toxic...

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood before the Lincoln Memorial in January 2022 and condemned the federal government’s coronavirus response by railing against totalitarianism. Jews in Nazi Germany, he suggested, had...

Elon Musk’s silver-hued vision for sending humans to the moon and Mars is standing next to a 480-foot launch tower in the southern corner of Texas. It’s a new SpaceX rocket called...

Confidentiality agreements can also make patients think twice before talking about P.A.H. even with friends — let alone on social media, an important forum for sharing such information, said Dr. Rita Redberg,...