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 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:13:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpACgfi7hQvVLZVjH6qdYdAk In a much-anticipated study, experts described a swab that contained loads of genetic material from the coronavirus and raccoon dogs.Security at the entrance to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan on Jan. 11, 2020.]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:37:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpACgfi7hQvVLZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBc53JcwjD8MuzdsCmHakzH Older climate activists gathered in cities around the country for a day of action targeting banks that finance fossil fuel projects.Two protesters outside a Chase Bank in Washington, part of a demonstration organized by Third Act, a group for older climate activists, on Tuesday.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:51:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBc53JcwjD8MuzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBsROaUV1R2hnn9ye8UNv30 The rings are actually vapor, not smoke, and some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how they form.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:25:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBsROaUV1R2hnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCiLpSL-lyC9ps0ohxaO6Yr In an interview with The Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy ascribed the crisis in part to “hustle culture” values.“I think of mental health as the fuel that allows us to show up for our communities, our friends, our family and our lives,” said Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:12:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCiLpSL-lyC9ps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCGOo5yiupoi3n9ye8UNv30 Current and former employees recall rising desperation as Trump administration officials squelched research into the new coronavirus.In early 2020, Dr. Daniel Wozniczka was a trainee with the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the C.D.C. “It was really heartbreaking and difficult on a psychological level not to be able to do anything,” he said.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:00:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCGOo5yiupoi3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAiCFNNJqZo0OT5HJgy6HUf Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that health officials hoped to contain is now in more than half the states, according to a new research paper.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:19:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAiCFNNJqZo0OT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAhpTBWBUzfFilmFkX7M1Jw X-ray technology has allowed researchers a glimpse at the reaches of the Yellowstone landmark’s prized stone and its importance to Indigenous people.Obsidian Cliff, made of volcanic glass used for milleniums as an extremely sharp tool for hunters’ weapons.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:00:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAhpTBWBUzfFilmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpC9JM_QBTP2peT5HJgy6HUf A new U.N. report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, speaking at the global climate talks on Nov. 6 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:00:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpC9JM_QBTP2peT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpDXiglzCP69bMb1naedg1wr A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.A view of the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a visit by the World Health Organization team in February 2021.]]> Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:30:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpDXiglzCP69bMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAlIdMO3z2zheT5HJgy6HUf Chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station, moved at 17,000 miles per hour, making for a nighttime spectacle.Streaks of light traveling across the sky over the Sacramento, Calif., area on Friday night.]]> Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:55:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAlIdMO3z2zheT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpB-3LxIYDBtNnn9ye8UNv30 The growing season has become completely reversed thanks to kerosene-burning greenhouses and the big prices paid for the earliest, best berries.]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 19:00:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpB-3LxIYDBtNnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpC1rmx4529bByejEQ2Mq9rY Medication abortion providers could serve six months in prison under the law, one of a growing number of efforts by conservative states to target the pills.Because the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an abortion, the fight over abortion access is now in the hands of the states.]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:30:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpC1rmx4529bByejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpDJsQ-4yg5DaylmFkX7M1Jw Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the coronavirus may have sprung from a market in Wuhan. Now the data are missing from a scientific database.Because questions remain about the samples and why the evidence disappeared, some scientists reacted cautiously, saying that it was difficult to assess the research without seeing a complete report.]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 01:28:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpDJsQ-4yg5DaylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpD-GUobLBk1uMb1naedg1wr The monogamous, hibernating canids, which are related to foxes, are sold for meat and fur.Raccoon dogs belong to the canid family, a group that also includes domestic dogs, and are the only member known to hibernate.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:19:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpD-GUobLBk1uMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCc7M5OScd8lylmFkX7M1Jw Critically endangered species and ones banned from international trade are among the hundreds of types birds, reptiles and mammals that researchers identified at 142 animal cafes.The laws governing animal cafes are “quite weak,” said Cécile Sarabian, a cognitive ecologist at Nagoya University.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:18:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpCc7M5OScd8lylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAr0GsK4iA7Q5s0ohxaO6Yr The New England Aquarium is raising 18 baby sea dragons after a successful and rare breeding event. The baby dragons, who look too much alike to have names, will go on display this summer.The New England Aquarium said it has been raising 18 baby sea dragons since July, after its first successful effort to breed and hatch the weedy variety of the species.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:23:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAr0GsK4iA7Q5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAcxN-rT8y6HZs0ohxaO6Yr Babesiosis, which can cause flulike symptoms, could be spreading because of rising temperatures and the growing deer population.The blacklegged-tick-borne disease babesiosis, which for decades was extremely rare in the United States, is now endemic in 10 states in the Northeast and the Midwest.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:30:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAcxN-rT8y6HZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBbm8AaGDcHKylmFkX7M1Jw Three hundred goldfish in a hospital basement, a suckermouth at the airport: When fish are in crisis, a local woman and a partner in Pennsylvania ride to the rescue.Brenda Prohaska, seen here at her home in the Bronx, has undertaken about 90 fish rescues in the past several years, saving the lives of abandoned fish all over New York City.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:00:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBbm8AaGDcHKylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBISYQU7CpSNnn9ye8UNv30 Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them.Members of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team leaving the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market on Jan. 11, 2020.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:22:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpBISYQU7CpSNnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAT-tZOK9nANl1cWWor9YPv While an agency analysis did find signs of Covid “rebound,” the drug significantly reduces hospitalizations and deaths, researchers said.Paxlovid’s rebound phenomenon gained attention after President Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci took the drug for Covid, tested negative and then, days later, tested positive again.]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:15:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/xZlQlhedQpAT-tZOK9nANl1cWWor9YPv