Follow New York Times - Science, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/new-york-times-d-science Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:19:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBlZ44JnXLkN11cWWor9YPv A new model suggests that in 250 million years, all land will collide into a supercontinent that boosts warming and pushes mammals to extinction.Sunset in Aluksne, Latvia, during a heat wave in August 2022.]]> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:00:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBlZ44JnXLkN11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBuBG7VQLEKp5VjH6qdYdAk Paleontologists in Egypt announced the discovery of Tutcetus rayanensis, an eight-foot-long leviathan that lived 41 million years ago.The fossil of Tutcetus rayanensis, a previously unknown species of miniature whale that lived 48 million to 38 million years ago.]]> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:01:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBuBG7VQLEKp5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBa16xSNRP4ryejEQ2Mq9rY A seven-year mission might end on Sunday as scientists try to drop off a sample of rock from Bennu, an asteroid that might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.]]> Sun, 24 Sep 2023 06:00:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBa16xSNRP4ryejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCwaTGX6yWwV3n9ye8UNv30 Amid an uptick in Covid infections, administrators, staff and patients are divided over the need for masks in health care settings.Liv Grace, who was born with a rare immune deficiency related to lupus, experienced three respiratory infections in four months after visiting medical providers.]]> Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:03:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCwaTGX6yWwV3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCcfU4sd3X0GF1cWWor9YPv As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements. Recent field work yielded a surprisingly intact 3,000-year-old arrow.A wooden arrow about 3,000 years old and in unusually fine condition was found in the mountains of Norway this month.]]> Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:01:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCcfU4sd3X0GF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCcfU4sd3X0GMb1naedg1wr A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after the toxin was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many lament the loss of the “works of art.”]]> Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:00:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCcfU4sd3X0GMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCtYZVVLeWj_ezdsCmHakzH The Chandrayaan-3 mission did what it set out to do, but its lander and rover could not be roused after entering the cold lunar darkness two weeks ago.The Pragyan rover maneuvering from the Vikram lunar lander on Aug. 24 after India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission set down on the moon.]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:39:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCtYZVVLeWj_ezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBZAyieKqPFNXn9ye8UNv30 The first patient to receive such an organ died after two months. “At least now I have hope,” the second recipient said before the surgery.]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:11:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBZAyieKqPFNXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpDy1A0R5CDAlOzdsCmHakzH Because box jellyfish are so distantly related to other animals, the research findings could hint at how the ability to learn first evolved.]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:00:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpDy1A0R5CDAlOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpA8TPaso5sJR5s0ohxaO6Yr Each September, the ice at the top of the world hits its lowest extent of the year. Researchers are studying how a warming climate is affecting a not-so-frozen ocean.]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:02:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpA8TPaso5sJR5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpD2Olc8klKgP3n9ye8UNv30 Low-income people who wrongly lost Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage will keep their insurance, federal officials said.“This will help strengthen access to Medicaid not just during this very challenging renewal transition, but also in the long term,” said Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:34:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpD2Olc8klKgP3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpB5i6bdHHV-WJVjH6qdYdAk This year’s awards were given to scientists who helped doctors see the retina and used artificial intelligence to predict the shapes of cellular proteins.]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:00:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpB5i6bdHHV-WJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpB_YedpLY7XUKCY3L745TL_ Community health workers put in long hours to protect people in developing countries from diseases such as malaria, Covid-19 and H.I.V. But most are compensated minimally, or not paid at all.Ms. Yusuf, with her briefcase of supplies and cooler of vaccines, leaves a home where she checked on a sick child. She provides a vast range of primary health care services for a monthly salary of $90.]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:00:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpB_YedpLY7XUKCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAj2gHD-au56SlmFkX7M1Jw In experiments under his microscope at home, a teenage researcher discovered a very unusual talent in a species of tiny insect that usually lays eggs on the inside of a tough plant growth.]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:00:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAj2gHD-au56SlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpA2c3qU-yKMGClmFkX7M1Jw Last week, Frank Rubio broke the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut. He was supposed to be away for only six months.The NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will complete a full year in space on Thursday, having set a record for the longest continuous spaceflight by an American. He is scheduled to return to Earth on Sept. 27.]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:59:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpA2c3qU-yKMGClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpA2c3qU-yKMGOT5HJgy6HUf Thousands of people from around the world responded to the invitation, sharing their sightings with scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:57:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpA2c3qU-yKMGOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCOoZ43sVVLkCejEQ2Mq9rY In the United States, smoke from wildfires is undoing progress from the Clean Air Act. In poorer countries, the situation is even worse.Smoke from Canadian wildfires turned the New York City sky dark yellow in June.]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:51:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCOoZ43sVVLkCejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAclU1AlrdANpVjH6qdYdAk Scientists have unearthed logs in Africa that are nearly a half-million years old, the remnants of large wooden structures crafted by our early ancestors.Larry Barham and colleagues discovered Pleistocene-age wooden structures dating to a time before modern humans in Zambia.]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:00:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAclU1AlrdANpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBUZhZd4oASXps0ohxaO6Yr As oceans warm, pathogenic bacteria are turning up more frequently in northern regions, scientists say.Water-borne pathogens like the flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, which killed three people in the New York area this summer, appear to be turning up more often in the Northeast.]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:00:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBUZhZd4oASXps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCiWtFNDxaQMJVjH6qdYdAk Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn’t so.]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:01:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCiWtFNDxaQMJVjH6qdYdAk