New York Times - Science

In a letter to President Trump, the spokesman, Rich Danker, said moves to allow the sale of flavored e-cigarettes would enhance their appeal to children.The resignation comes at a fraught time for the Department of Health and Human Services, which now has three major vacancies.

In a dispute over vapes, the president sided with tobacco companies that filled his groups’ coffers over his own F.D.A. commissioner, who resigned in protest.The F.D.A. issued new guidance that could pave the way for major tobacco companies to begin selling flavored vapes less than a week after industry executives met with President Trump.

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up. The stars will do the rest.

Lithuanian officials hope restored peat bogs can reinforce the border in addition to locking away planet-warming carbon.