Timef 02/16/2025

After years in Big Pharma, a chemist pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible.

In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.

Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.

This month, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques with The Times.

By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.

Johnson County is seeking federal assistance, saying its farmland has become dangerously contaminated with “forever chemicals” from the use of fertilizer made from sewage sludge.

After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases.

Companies that get federal grants or loans usually sign a legally binding agreement and depend on getting reimbursed. The new administration has upended that expectation.

In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together.

Scientists identified new structures in the tail vanes of the prehistoric flying reptiles.

The case could lead to a battle in federal court over whether states that support abortion rights can protect doctors who provide abortion services.

Researchers found crocodilians, bats, raccoons and other creatures prowling a Florida town’s storm drains, “like something out of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’” one said.

The vets had no symptoms, and one worked only in states where no dairy infections had been reported.

The findings showed the highest mortality occurred among infants who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects.

Products must state if they contain chemicals tied to cancer or other risks. As a result, manufacturers have pulled back from using the chemicals, researchers found.

As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited a disputed study from a close network of fellow vaccine skeptics during his confirmation hearings. His critics say it is part of a pattern that raises concerns about whose research he would elevate as health secretary.

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving the seabirds.

It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest pathogens.

The always colorful males light up with biofluorescence, sending off signals.

The federal order temporarily halts the Trump administration’s plans to slash $4 billion in overhead costs for research at universities and medical centers into diseases like cancer.

About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.

The new research adds to the mysteries of the planet’s deepest interior region.

The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

At cardiology conferences and diabetes meetings, doctors can’t help noticing that thin seems to be very in.