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    Need to Dust Off Your Social Skills?

    Now, everyone is trying to navigate conflicting threat levels in a way that used to be specific to those populations, she said. Cues that...

    Has the Era of Overzealous Cleaning Finally Come to an End?

    When the coronavirus began to spread in the United States last spring, many experts warned of the danger posed by surfaces. Researchers reported that...

    Vaccinated Mothers Are Trying to Give Children Antibodies via Breast Milk

    In the first nine months of the pandemic, around 116 million babies were born worldwide, according to Unicef estimates. This left researchers scrambling to...

    For Him, the Delight Is in the Digging

    Patrick Radden Keefe has investigated human smuggling, government espionage and the Northern Ireland conflict. With “Empire of Pain,” he takes on the Sackler family...

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    Music Therapy: Why Doctors Use it to Help Patients Cope

    “Focus on the sound of the instrument,” Andrew Rossetti, a licensed music therapist and researcher said as he strummed hypnotic chords on a Spanish-style...

    Online Scammers Have a New Offer For You: Vaccine Cards

    SAN FRANCISCO — On Etsy, eBay, Facebook and Twitter, little rectangular slips of paper started showing up for sale in late January. Printed on...

    Top Official Warned That Covid Vaccine Plant Had to Be ‘Monitored Closely’

    Mr. de Notaristefani, a former top executive at two major pharmaceutical companies, cited “significant” personnel problems, writing that plans to increase staffing seemed “inadequate...

    More Contagious Covid Variant Is Now Dominant in U.S., C.D.C. Says

    WASHINGTON — A highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in Britain has become the most common source of new infections...

    More Contagious Virus Variant Is Now Dominant in U.S., C.D.C. Chief Says

    WASHINGTON — A highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in Britain has become the most common source of new infections...

    Restaurant Workers Are in a Race to Get Vaccines

    Over the course of the pandemic, some of the most dangerous activities were those many Americans dearly missed: scarfing up nachos, canoodling with a...

    A Novel Effort to See How Poverty Affects Young Brains

    The study aimed to collect brain activity data from children at age 1 and age 3 in home visits, and researchers managed to obtain...

    Opportunities Out of the Tragedies of the Pandemic

    “When people focus on what is right within what seems wrong in their life (for example, the car has a flat tire but isn’t...

    Born to Be Lazy? What Bears Can Teach Us About Our Exercise Habits

    Grizzly bears move across landscapes in much the same way as most people do, favoring flat paths over slopes and gentle speeds over sprints,...

    Lecciones históricas sobre la resiliencia

    Y ahora, Estados Unidos se enfrenta a una pandemia que ha enfermado y matado de manera desproporcionada a los estadounidenses de color, quienes conforman...

    Covid Victims Remembered Through Their Objects

    Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.As the art director of...