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Ted S. Warren / AP A person completes a swab of their mouth using a Curative test at a walk-up kiosk testing site in Seattle, Jan. 2. In less than a year, the startup Curative […]

What Ms. Burkett and Ms. Miller experienced wasn’t the norm. Many of the conditions that can raise a person’s risk for severe Covid — excess weight, heart disease, diabetes, smoking — are highly influenced by […]

At some point early during California’s COVID lockdown, I made an emergency trip to the dentist. I was in pain, preoccupied by fears of root canals in a pandemic, and as a result, when the […]

After billions of dollars and a decade of work, NASA’s plans to send astronauts back to the moon had a new setback on Saturday. A planned eight-minute test firing of the four engines of a […]

science The report, which has never been made public, found that mysterious illnesses in diplomats in Cuba could not be explained by their medical histories. Dan Vergano BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on January 15, 2021, […]

NASA has spent years and billions of dollars developing a giant rocket known as the Space Launch System, designed to take astronauts to moon and perhaps farther out into the solar system someday. But the […]

In September, Jamie Nadeau, a 32-year-old nutritionist based in Massachusetts, posted a TikTok that went semi-viral. “Is 1,200 calories right for you?” she asked in a voiceover while pointing at a MyFitnessPal screenshot and smiling. […]

Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on women’s lives — and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous […]

2020 was officially one of the hottest years on record, a sign of unabated global warming, according to a handful of analyses published by scientists worldwide over the last week. The heat record comes after […]

When a handful of new coronavirus cases materialized this month in a province surrounding Beijing — apparently spread at a village wedding party — the Chinese authorities bolted into action. They locked down two cities […]