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SpaceX Test Delayed to Sunday
A successful demonstration of the abort system on the company’s Crew Dragon capsule would set up the next flight, which is to have astronauts aboard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/science/spacex-launch-dragon.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
W.H.O. Warns That Pipeline for New Antibiotics Is Running Dry
In two new reports, the global health agency says only government intervention can fix the broken market for new antimicrobial drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/health/antibiotics-resistance-new-drugs.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Children and Teen's Climate Change Lawsuit Dismissed by U.S. Court
Two of three judges on the panel said that climate change was an issue for lawmakers, not the courts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/climate/juliana-climate-case.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Three U.S. Airports to Check Passengers for a Deadly Chinese Coronavirus
Passengers from Wuhan, China, will be screened at J.F.K. beginning Friday night, and in San Francisco and Los Angeles starting on Saturday.
$8 Billion Verdict in Drug Lawsuit Is Reduced to $6.8 Million
A Philadelphia judge lowered the damages in a case that claimed Johnson & Johnson played down the risks of an antipsychotic drug.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/health/jnj-risperdal-verdict-reduced.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
At the Bottom of the Sea, They Wait to Feast on Alligators
Usually the large reptiles feed on other creatures. But scientists found a surprise at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/science/alligators-carcasses-scavengers.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Avoiding Carsickness When the Cars Drive Themselves
If the future lets people focus on work instead of driving during the daily commute, many of us will have to conquer motion sickness to read memos (or tweets). Researchers are working on some fix...
Meteorite or Volcano? New Clues to the Dinosaurs’ Demise
Twin calamities marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth’s great extinctions.
Despite ‘Unsupportable’ Bloodstain Analysis, No Relief for Man Convicted of Murder
Joe Bryan has maintained his innocence since his sentencing for the 1985 murder. The highest criminal court in Texas this week denied a last-ditch effort to obtain a new trial.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/joe-bryan-texas.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
What Wolf Pups That Play Fetch Reveal About Your Dog
If wolf pups will retrieve a ball for a stranger, no training necessary, maybe dogs’ wild ancestors were also ready for human games.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/science/wolves-fetch-dogs-domestication.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
How Hard Is It to Quit Coal? For Germany, 18 Years and $44 Billion
The 18-year time frame shows how costly and politically complicated it is to leave the world's dirtiest fossil fuel in the ground.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/climate/germany-coal-climate-change.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
The Overlooked History of Women at Work
A Grolier Club exhibition explores 500 years of women as scientists, midwives, writers, activists, undertakers and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/arts/design/womens-work-grolier-club.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Exploring the Solar System Anew at the Hayden Planetarium
The American Museum of Natural History’s first new space show since 2013 is a head-spinning adventure that makes a statement about the fragility of Earth.
Rich People Don’t Just Live Longer. They Also Get More Healthy Years.
Wealthy men and women generally have eight to nine more years of “disability-free” life after age 50 than poor people do, according to a new study of English and American adults.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/science/rich-people-longer-life-study.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Reducing Fire, and Cutting Carbon Emissions, the Aboriginal Way
As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention.
Air Pollution, Evolution, and the Fate of Billions of Humans
It’s not just a modern problem. Airborne toxins are so pernicious that they may have shaped our DNA over millions of years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/science/air-pollution-fires-genes.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
How Anti-Vaccine Activists Doomed a Bill in New Jersey
Angry parents, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group and anti-vaccine celebrities rallied to outmatch one of the state’s most powerful elected leaders.
Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete
“A Frankenstein material” is teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.
Betty Pat Gatliff, 89, Whose Forensic Art Solved Crimes, Dies
She used clay to reconstruct the faces of the missing and the murdered, in the hope of helping police departments learn who they were.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/science/betty-pat-gatliff-dead.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Neanderthals Could Swim. They Even Dived.
Shell tools found in a Neanderthal cave may have been retrieved from water as deep as 13 feet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/science/neanderthals-swimming-diving.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
This Strange Microbe May Mark One of Life’s Great Leaps
A organism living in ocean muck offers clues to the origins of the complex cells of all animals and plants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/science/cells-eukaryotes-archaea.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Where Surgeons Don’t Bother With Checklists
In many poor countries, older surgeons resist being questioned, and operations are more often emergencies, which leaves less time to review checklists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/health/surgeons-checklists.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Taal Volcano Eases, but Philippines Worries Worst Is to Come
The potential threat alarms a country that is no stranger to natural disasters like typhoons, earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis and floods.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/world/asia/taal-volcano-philippines.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Vera Rubin Gets a Telescope of Her Own
The astronomer missed her Nobel Prize. But she now has a whole new observatory to her name.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/science/vera-rubin-telescope-astronomy.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
2019 Was a Record Year for Ocean Temperatures, Data Show
A new analysis found 2019 was the hottest for the world’s oceans. The five hottest years have also been in the past five years.
Who Is Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese Billionaire Seeking a ‘Special Woman’ for Space — and Life?
A field guide to the fashion tycoon and art collector who has a new frontier in his sights: love to the moon and back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/style/yusaku-maezawa-space-girlfriend.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Ronald Melzack, Cartographer of Pain, Is Dead at 90
The theory that he and a colleague devised deepened medicine’s understanding of pain and how it is best measured and treated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/science/ronald-melzack-dead.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Diego, the Tortoise Whose High Sex Drive Helped Save His Species, Retires
With the future secured, he’s finally going home. Good job, Diego.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/world/americas/diego-tortoise-sex-drive.html?emc=rss&partner=rss