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The new guidelines eliminate quarantines and put less emphasis on social distancing, routine surveillance testing and contact tracing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/health/virus-cdc-guidelines.html

Information and medications needed to end a pregnancy are increasingly available outside the health care system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/health/abortion-self-managed-medication.html

The loss of certain muscles in the human larynx may have helped give our species a voice, a new study suggests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/science/language-humans-primates.html

The warming at the top of the globe, a sign of climate change, is happening much faster than previously described compared with the global average, scientists said Thursday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/climate/arctic-global-warming.html

The Sturgeon Moon will be visible in the night sky Thursday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/science/sturgeon-supermoon.html

Fireballs may light up the sky for those willing to stay up late and take in the show.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/science/perseid-meteor-shower.html

Testing found nitrosamine contamination in some samples of Januvia, but regulators will allow Merck to continue selling the drug for now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/health/diabetes-januvia-cancer.html

Working closely with the Leakey family in Kenya, he discovered many of the bones that rewrote how we understand human evolution.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/science/kamoya-kimeu-dead.html

A study found that while some fireflies shrugged off light pollution, members of other species failed to mate even when males and females could find each other.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/science/firefly-light-mating.html

Beneficiaries of two American oil fortunes are supporting groups trying to block fossil fuel projects. One donor said he felt a “moral obligation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/climate/climate-protesters-paid-activists.html

Children of ages 1 to 9 in the city will be offered a booster after signs that the virus was turning up more frequently in samples. No cases have so far been reported.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/world/europe/uk-london-polio-vaccine-sewage.html

With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/science/singing-insect-wing-sound.html

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps feed other marine organisms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/science/sea-sponges-sneezing.html

The Webb telescope soon will help measure the world, which may offer insights into how our own formed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/science/newest-youngest-exoplanet.html

A documentary captures the desperation and frustration of Type 1 diabetes patients in a clinical trial.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/health/diabetes-cure-type-1.html

With the right software on your phone you can turn a getaway on the water into an opportunity for discovery, from deciphering signal flags to forecasting tides.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/travel/maritime-apps.html

Researchers found jumping spiders, known for their acrobatic hunting, exhibiting signs of R.E.M. sleep, but it is unknown whether they dream, or even sleep.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/science/spiders-dreaming-sleeping-rem.html

The legislation invests in American chip manufacturing and is part of a streak of legislative successes that President Biden is planning to highlight as the midterm elections approach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/us/politics/biden-semiconductor-chips-china.html

Archaeologists found the remains of 14 soldiers who died in a pivotal Revolutionary War battle — a fresh reminder of the violence of war.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/science/archaeology-red-bank-battle-hessian.html

Flash floods last week pushed burned soil, rocks and downed timber into the river, killing off, according to local tribal leaders, thousands of fish.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/mckinney-fire-fish-california-oregon.html

The Senate bill avoided the political pitfalls of past legislative attempts by offering only incentives to cut climate pollution, not taxes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/climate/senate-climate-law.html

The controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline is one of several projects the senator has negotiated major concessions for, benefiting his financial supporters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/climate/manchin-schumer-pipeline-political-funding.html

The Danuri spacecraft, which launched on Thursday, aims to provide a lunar scientific bounty while preparing the country’s small space program for future exploration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/science/korea-moon-danuri.html

Doctors who want to prescribe tecovirimat, or Tpoxx, must navigate a gantlet of bureaucratic hurdles that experts say could be quickly lifted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/health/monkeypox-treatment-tpoxx.html

Two research teams found that dolphins could forge strong social bonds with outsiders within a few years

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/science/dolphins-bahamas-mixing.html

After years of pioneering research into inherited disorders, mostly in children, he spoke openly about his struggle with mental illness.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/health/leon-e-rosenberg-dead.html

People with H.I.V. and other immune-system problems may need the full two-dose regimen, researchers say. But the shots, particularly second doses, are hard to come by.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/health/monkeypox-vaccine-hiv.html

A Times investigation revealed a coordinated effort by state treasurers to use government muscle and public funds to punish companies trying to reduce greenhouse gases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/climate/republican-treasurers-climate-change.html

A team of biologists and mathematicians studied hours of video to learn how insects take shape in the egg. The secret is geometry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/science/cricket-embryos-biology-development.html