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    Reading Dan Frank, Book Editor and ‘Champion of the Unexampled’

    I met him through Alan Lightman, who had emailed me to say he was coming to New York to give a talk, and did...

    U.K. Approves Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

    Britain’s drug regulator on Friday approved the use of the single-dose shots manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, the fourth coronavirus vaccine to be authorized...

    70 Percent Covid Vaccination Rate May Be in Reach, New Poll Suggests

    A new poll suggests the United States could be on track to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the adult population against Covid-19 by...

    U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins

    WASHINGTON — President Biden’s call for a 90-day sprint to understand the origins of the coronavirus pandemic came after intelligence officials told the White...

    NFTs Linked to Nobel Prizes Are Being Auctioned by Berkeley

    How much will someone be willing to pay for a few pages of quarter-century-old bureaucratic university paperwork that have been turned into a blockchain-encoded...

    Why Apple and Google’s Virus Alert Apps Had Limited Success

    Sarah Cavey, a real estate agent in Denver, was thrilled last fall when Colorado introduced an app to warn people of possible coronavirus exposures.Based...

    Weekly Health Quiz: New Goals, Snuggling and the Best Time of Day to Exercise

    Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. Source link

    Biden Orders Intelligence Inquiry Into Origins of the Coronavirus

    Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, has been working with various intelligence agencies, bringing together officials with divergent views to discuss them,...

    Subway Swabbers Find a Microbe Jungle — And Thousands of New Species

    Teams of researchers and volunteers fanned out across the mass transit systems of 60 cities, collecting thousands of samples from 2015 to 2017. They...

    Judge Clears Purdue Pharma’s Restructuring Plan for Vote by Thousands of Claimants

    “It’s not unprecedented, but it’s highly controversial” for a bankrupt company’s owners to be released from future litigation as part of a settlement, said...

    The Best Time of Day to Exercise for Metabolic Health

    The exercise routines were identical, intermingling brief, intense intervals on stationary bicycles one day with easier, longer workouts the next. The exercisers worked out...

    Mount Sinai Seeks to Expand School Virus Testing Program

    Every week, students at KIPP Infinity Middle School, in West Harlem, file into a large auditorium and take their places on the designated floor...

    Moderna Says Its Covid Vaccine Is Effective for 12- to 17-Year-Olds

    Moderna said on Tuesday that its coronavirus vaccine, authorized only for use in adults, was powerfully effective in 12- to 17-year-olds, and that it...

    Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light

    From ghosts to batsWhen research on so-called interbrain synchrony emerged in the 2000s, some scientists dismissed it as parapsychology, a trippy field of the...

    Small Study Looks at Children With Covid Inflammatory Syndrome

    Dr. Newburger, who was not involved in the British report, called it a “small but important study” that “contributes new information to the knowledge...

    Children With Covid Inflammatory Syndrome May Overcome Their Most Serious Symptoms

    Dr. Newburger, who was not involved in the British report, called it a “small but important study” that “contributes new information to the knowledge...