The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers
By Adeel Hassan
As tech giants rush to build infrastructure, some residents who live near data centers say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.
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Five stories show the hurdles that people with psychological diagnoses face when considering parenthood.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Others who were in the facility have been allowed to return to their homes in recent weeks for monitoring by local health officials.
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 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 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 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 Reed Abelson
One-third of Americans shoulder health care debt. Insurers are being asked to consider lending money to Obamacare consumers who can’t afford higher deductibles.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
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 Carl Zimmer
The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.
By K. R. Callaway
A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once.
By Katie Engelhart
The United States is reliant on unpaid family caregivers, and millions of adult children are caring for parents who didn’t really care for them.
By Remy Tumin
Think ticks are limited to rural areas and the wilderness? Think again.
By Melinda Wenner Moyer
This popular term is often misused, experts say, which may cause more harm than good.
By Reed Abelson
Two reports by U.S. investigators reveal how Medicare Advantage is quick to reject requests for short-term nursing home or inpatient services.
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Eric Schmitt
Hundreds of Kenyans have marched through the streets to oppose a quarantine facility that would be reserved exclusively for American patients.
By K. R. Callaway and Emily Anthes
The parasitic, flesh-eating fly has now been confirmed in cows, goats and dogs.
By Douglas Martin
His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vaccine policies, according to colleagues.
By Pooja Salhotra
After Jesse Ridgway, a popular YouTuber, and his wife, Ashley, revealed the news, death threats followed.
By Henrik Pryser Libell and Jonathan Wolfe
News of Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s worsening condition comes as a number of scandals have plunged the royal family into a deep crisis.
By Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi
Mining has been the lifeblood of this remote Congolese hill town for decades. Now, it is fueling the spread of a devastating virus.
By Carl Zimmer
Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists.
By Jeré Longman
He mapped the herpes simplex virus genome, revealing how it invades cells. His work also helped lay the groundwork for potential vaccines and gene therapies.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Despite long-established procedures for bringing Americans home for monitoring and treatment, the Trump administration has not said that it will allow those at risk of Ebola back into the country.
By Stephanie Nolen and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated in pointed testimony to senators that he was reclaiming control of the U.S. relationship with Gavi, an international vaccine alliance.
By Stephanie Nolen
A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.
By Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Theodore Schleifer
A Mellon heir transferred the adjacent Connecticut properties, covering about 300 acres, at no cost to Children’s Health Defense last year.
By Carl Zimmer
The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.
By Franz Lidz
Thousands of mysterious containers lie scattered across northern Laos. These “death jars” may have provided a form of communal interment, archaeologists reported.
By Rebecca Robbins and Gina Kolata
Clinical trials in China are getting attention at an international oncology gathering in Chicago. China’s surging biotechnology industry is fueling alarm that U.S. dominance in the field is waning.
By Trip Gabriel
His research showing the positive effects of athletics on intellectually disabled children led Eunice Kennedy Shriver to ask him to help stage the Games.
By Brian O. Otieno
The order came after U.S. officials said that a 50-bed facility was being established in the African country to house American citizens exposed to the virus.