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The State Department is taking over much of the control of global health initiatives, for which critics say the department does not have the expertise.
By Brad Plumer
It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.
By Alex Williams
A math whiz as a young man, he later blazed trails, both with his theoretical advances and his advocacy for minority students.
By Scott Dance
Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would get money out to states faster.
By Kenneth P. Vogel and Christina Jewett
With support from Markwayne Mullin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the kratom industry is pursuing a potentially lucrative policy. Mr. Mullin owns equity in a company that could benefit.
By Maxine Joselow
Algal blooms have hit the site, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, after a $14.2 million repair project.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
The health secretary is trying to restart the work of a panel that advises the government on vaccines, after a judge froze its decisions and prevented it from meeting.
By Scott Dance
A prolonged drought means the nation’s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lie ahead.
By Ryan Mac, Kenneth Chang and Kirsten Grind
Elon Musk said he had initially given SpaceX less than a 10 percent chance of succeeding. His rocket company has come a long way.
By Christine Hauser
Remains of the man, Joseph Louis Serrao Jr., discovered in a remote area in Olympic National Park in 2000, were identified using forensic genealogy.
By Carl Zimmer and Stephanie Nolen
Trials are beginning on several drugs that have shown promise in preliminary studies against the virus that is causing the current outbreak.
By Carl Zimmer
An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers.
By Brad Plumer
More than 100 planned wind farms in 21 states are now stalled indefinitely as the Pentagon delays military reviews once seen as routine.
By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Amy McGovern was the director of an A.I. institute dedicated to weather forecasting — until the National Science Foundation ended its funding.
By Trip Gabriel
In 1995, he and Thomas Bopp spotted, from different states, the same mysterious object in the sky. What turned out to be a comet was named after them: Hale-Bopp.
By Clay Risen
He built interfaces that allowed engineers, scientists and everyday people to solve difficult problems without having to write the underlying code.
By Emily Anthes
With machine learning and a high-resolution imaging robot, scientists measured and mapped the extent of Earth’s carbon circulatory system.
By Chico Harlan
The global weather pattern threatens to worsen floods and heat waves already intensifying due to climate change. But it may also mean fewer hurricanes.
By Gina Kolata
Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself?
By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out diseases or trigger a rush toward enhancement.
By Melinda Wenner Moyer
This popular term is often misused, experts say, which may cause more harm than good.
By Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer
As the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change.
By Rachel Nuwer
Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.