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Former high-ranking officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told senators on Wednesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment as the nation’s top health care regulator has created an anti-scientific culture of censorship and arbitrary policy changes that are endangering Americans’ health. At the center of lawmakers focus …

Colossal Biosciences today announced their plans to bring back the tallest bird that ever lived, which has been extinct for nearly 600 years. The giant moa — a husky, wingless bird that could stand almost 12 feet tall — once booked it across New Zealand’s landscapes on legs that looked …

In today’s state of overwhelm, it’s easy to spend more time consumed with the present and the future than contemplating the events of the past. This constant forward motion can, at times, become exhausting and disorienting. We lose our grounding. We miss out on the context and insights that history …

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) urged drug industry executives and advocates this week to personally reject anti-science politicians. Speaking before the BIO International Convention in Boston on Tuesday, the rising Democratic star took aim at President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him “completely …

Wherever corporate power is running roughshod over culture, the climate, the economy, or our politics, progressives can count on Naomi Klein to provide a clear-eyed assessment of the damage and to offer pathways to resist with hope, rather than cower in despair. A social activist and public intellectual, Klein is …

America has stood as a world superpower for the past century or so, and much of that power has been derived from the country’s scientific and technological prowess. From medicine to aerospace, some of the greatest thinkers in modern history have called the United States their home and pushed boundaries …

Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two fluffy, snow-white wolves that the company claims represent their first successful effort in “de-extincion.” The wolves, with longer, thicker, lighter-colored coats than …

F rom certain angles, the white canids on the video call, chewing on branches in the grass, look like Samoyeds: huge, white, fluffy faces and big black noses. Just when you start considering what it might feel like to wrap your arms around them and bury your face in the …

O n the evening of March 25, 2021, Karen Levy relaxed with some friends on her front porch in Seattle. They were having dinner, enjoying the cool evening weather and cloudless skies, when they noticed something odd. A bright squadron of fiery objects had invaded the night sky and was …

To live to a ripe old age, it helps to laugh a lot, love a lot, engage with your community, and avoid stress. Walking regularly helps, especially uphill. Eat plant-based foods and avoid a sedentary lifestyle. Get out of your car and stay there. In other words, do a lot …