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Colorado Mesa University and the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard have spent the last year exploring new approaches to managing outbreaks.

Two scientific findings altered the calculus: Vaccinated people rarely transmit the virus, and the shots are effective against variants.

Wearing a mask when you’re sick is common in East Asia, but there’s no tidy scientific consensus on how much it limits the spread of respiratory illnesses.

The researchers issued a call to action to improve indoor air quality as a safeguard against the spread of contagions like the coronavirus.

The success establishes China as a principal contender in what some see as a new era of space competition.

This week, discover the cultural and societal impact of sneakers, practice your math skills or explore what a net zero climate might look like.

Revisit your childhood gum-wrapper-folding skills to add a crowning touch to a flowerpot.

After a year spent largely indoors, adults are regaining a sense of balance on roller skates, bikes and skateboards.

Mint is a wonderful flavor to enrich warm-weather coolers.

A los perros que no serían la primera opción de muchos dueños de mascotas les va mejor cuando tienen que aprender de un extraño, en comparación con algunos canes más agradables.

Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a Times investigation found.

Scientists found that the fish were gradually domesticated like dog breeds into the beautiful shapes and colors that turn up today in pet stores.

The country’s high-profile Mars mission is one of many on its schedule as it seeks to challenge American dominance of space exploration.

He created the adhesive that lets the small, square notes stick to surfaces. They became one of the most ubiquitous office products ever conceived.

At a House subcommittee hearing, witnesses emphasize the need for much more genome sequencing, data-sharing and research to track virus mutations and their effects.

The cost-benefit rule limited the way the E.P.A. could justify clean air regulations.

The country has managed to avoid a variant-fueled spike in coronavirus cases. Scientists say we were lucky.

Japanese scientists who studied an unusual method of delivering oxygen in mammals hope to one day try it in people.

Tossing their masks, jumping on side-by-side treadmills, sharing peanuts next to fellow sports fans, the vaccinated find special freedoms await.

Fully vaccinated people do not have to wear masks or maintain social distance indoors or outdoors, with some exceptions, the C.D.C. advised.

A lawyer and policy analyst, he studied ways to forestall energy crises and other catastrophes. He died of Covid-19.

Researchers urge an open mind, saying lack of evidence leaves theories of natural spillover and laboratory leak both viable.

The rare form of the element found on the Pacific seabed points to its violent birth in colliding stars.

The shots may also have benefits for infants and do not seem to damage the placenta, according to the latest research.

DNA analysis has identified the remains of a woman, who for decades was known only as Christy Crystal Creek, as those of Janet Lee Lucas, who was last seen in Spokane, Wash., in 1983.

The royal matchmaking service may help these insects avoid inbreeding.

Energy infrastructure has increasingly come under assault, and analysts said the attack that cut off fuel supplies this week should be a “wake-up call.”

Six men were among the latest confirmed cases, which now total 28. Previous cases included only women.

Immunizations will quickly begin nationwide, officials predicted.

New data compiled by the E.P.A. shows how global warming is making life harder for Americans in myriad ways that threaten their health, safety and homes.

Changes to the atmosphere caused by carbon dioxide emissions could increase the amount of debris that stays in orbit.

After lying dormant in buried bottles for 142 years, 11 seeds germinated on the Michigan State University campus after scientists planted them.

The Vineyard Wind project, off the coast of Massachusetts, would generate enough electricity to power 400,000 homes.

The shots may allow millions of youngsters to get back to school, camps, sleepovers and hangouts with friends.

“I don’t see a lot going well for them at this point,” said one analyst.

The hope is that new treatments will encourage people to think of obesity as a chronic disease, like high blood pressure or diabetes.

A new study questions that figure, known as Dunbar’s number. The Oxford professor for whom it is named, Robin Dunbar, dismissed the findings as “absolutely bonkers.”

New tests for respiratory illnesses can look for more than 20 pathogens at a time.

The OSIRIS-REX mission will spend two years cruising home with space rock samples that could unlock secrets of the early solar system.

Researchers want to learn more about the connections between humans and the feeding of birds, beasts and other fauna.

Scientists are concerned about unregulated feeding of ocean wildlife by tour operators.