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Hurricane Lee grabbed the attention of forecasters and social media last week as the rapidly intensifying storm moved west across the open waters of the Atlantic. It is easy to look at a map showing a major hurricane with a forecast path pointed directly at the United States and think the East Coast is in…
Americans with H.I.V. are achieving the once unthinkable: a steady march into older age. But beginning around age 50, many people living with the virus face a host of health problems, from heart disease and diabetes to social isolation and cognitive decline. And so the medical research community, which some three decades ago developed lifesaving…
[WATER LAPPING] [MUSIC PLAYING] I think all of our lives, there are opportunities for stillness. Sometimes they’re forced upon us. For many reasons, life will tell you to sit down. But for the most part, we’re encouraged to keep moving. My grandmother used to live downtown. Whenever we came down, she would insist that we…
The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new study finds. Researchers say the deadly hot spells in the American Southwest and Southern Europe couldn’t have happened without the continuing buildup of warming gases in the air. These unusually strong heat waves are becoming more…
Some of the extreme temperatures recorded in the Southwestern United States, southern Europe and northern Mexico at the beginning of the month would have been “virtually impossible” without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to research made public Tuesday. During the first half of July hundreds of millions of people in North America, Europe…
Sheryll Durrant left her family farm in Jamaica in 1989 and embarked on a career in corporate marketing. But after the 2008 financial meltdown, she reconsidered her life. She returned to her roots. Now she runs a thriving urban farm wedged into a triangular plot in the Bronx, between the Grand Concourse and the Metro North railroad tracks. At her…
It was showtime at the youth swine exhibition, and the pig barn was bustling. The competitors, ages 3 to 21, were practicing their walks for the show ring and brushing pig bristles into place. Parents were braiding children’s hair, adding ribbons and pig-shaped barrettes. Dr. Andrew Bowman, a molecular epidemiologist at Ohio State University, was…
Artificial intelligence-generated text can appear more human on social media than text written by actual humans, a study found. Chatbots, such as OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT, are able to convincingly mimic human conversation based on prompts it is given by users. The platform exploded in use last year and served as a watershed moment for…
Two women who had been hiking at a Nevada state park were found dead on Saturday, park rangers said, as record-breaking heat waves rippled through the region and sent temperatures rising through parts of the western and southwestern United States. The coroner’s office in Clark County, Nev., identified the women as Jessica Rhodes, 34, and…
The start of industrial-scale seabed mining to extract car battery metals from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean has been delayed after the international agency charged with overseeing the work concluded late last week that it needed more time to finalize mining rules. The action by the International Seabed Authority, which had set a July…
