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DOCTORS AND DISTILLERS: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails, by Camper EnglishWe have many reasons to be thankful for a nice gin and tonic, but as a malaria-busting...

TAFT, Calif. — Every five years, this city of 7,000 hosts a rollicking, Old West-themed festival known as Oildorado. High schoolers decorate parade floats with derricks and pump jacks. Young women vie...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza strain that has whipped through flocks of domestic poultry and wild birds this year may also be to blame for a spike in seal strandings in Maine,...

The Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow Juul Labs’ vaping products to stay on the market temporarily, citing “scientific issues” that warrant a review of the agency’s ruling last month...

An experimental drug initially developed to fight cancer cut the risk of death for people hospitalized with Covid by half, according to a study published on Wednesday.The drug, sabizabulin, seemed to be...

Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesMost top mathematicians discovered the subject when they were young, often excelling in international competitions.By contrast, math was a weakness for June Huh, who was born in California...

“Yallah, yallah, yallah! Woooo!”I was visiting the pyramids of Giza, Egypt, in the company of Mark Lehner, a renowned Egyptologist, when suddenly a series of voices erupted and echoed throughout the site....

James Bardeen, who helped elucidate the properties and behavior of black holes, setting the stage for what has been called the golden age of black hole astrophysics, died on June 20 in...

Approximately 50 years ago, the researches by Prof. Ancel Keys showed that people from the Mediterranean region were significantly less affected by coronary heart diseases. Subsequent studies on the traditional Mediterranean diet...

About a half-hour before his lunch break one June morning, Travis Mudry was operating an excavator and digging through permafrost in the Klondike gold fields of the Yukon in Canada.He was scratching...