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Female tammar wallabies are rarely, if ever, truly alone. Their pregnancies last almost exactly 12 months —and within hours of giving birth, most of the marsupials can be found mating again , conceivi

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Updated at 11:20 a.m. ET on March 17, 2023 For three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ping-ponged between two big ideas: that SARS-CoV-2 spilled into human popula

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I’ve never felt the need to choose between the iPad and the Mac. I use and value them both. But over the last few years, it’s started to feel like both the Mac and the iPad are increasingly limited by

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A Black woman has never been a governor, and only two have been senators. Despite progress at lower levels of government, and one boundary-breaking vice president, familiar barriers are slow to fall.

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T he front lines of the widening confrontation between the United States and China stretch from the halls of the United Nations to the island nations of the South Pacific. Yet, as in any great geopoli

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It was late fall of 2022 when David Stallknecht heard that bodies were raining from the sky. Stallknecht, a wildlife biologist at the University of Georgia, was already fearing the worst. For months,

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Long before Pauline Clance developed the idea of the impostor phenomenon—now, to her frustration, more commonly referred to as impostor syndrome—she was known by the nickname Tiny. Born in 1938 and ra

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When she was running for mayor of Los Angeles last year, Karen Bass spoke often about how the homelessness crisis is what prompted her to leave a safe seat in Congress and “come home.” It was the cris

In 2005, when Apple first introduced the Mac mini, it was a carefully designed, strategic product: a low-cost computer aimed primarily at luring customers from the Windows PC hegemony with the promise

You can’t say the 2022 climate data coming out is surprising. But it sure is alarming. U.S. federal agencies last week reported that 2022 was either the fifth or sixth hottest year on record , dependi

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A Hindu ritual on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, northern India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen Varanasi as a core vehicle of his assertion of India as a Hindu nation, raising tensions with Muslims. Seated in the domed, red sandstone government building unveiled by the British…

Southern California has several housing crises. “Starter homes” cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Rent burdens are crushing the working-class tenant majority. And Los Angeles’ lower-income neighb

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While carriers like Delta, American Airlines and United bounced back after severe winter weather wreaked havoc on holiday travel, the low-cost carrier canceled thousands of flights. Here’s why. Passengers at Southwest Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday.Credit...Kyle Grillot for…

Carmakers say electromagnetic interference causes static and noise on AM transmissions, annoying customers. Broadcasters say they could lose a connection to their core listeners, who rely on the radio

A typical pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks. Roe v. Wade , the Supreme Court decision that created a constitutional right to abortion, was reversed less than six months ago. This means the U.S. is curren

A mother checks her son’s temperature in 1949. Harold M. Lambert/Getty Images This fall, America’s pediatric hospitals have been overwhelmed by a “ tri-demic ” of RSV, flu, and Covid-19. And while it’

For refrigerators across America, the passing of Thanksgiving promises a major purge. The good stuff is the first to go: the mashed potatoes, the buttery remains of stuffing, breakfast-worthy cold pie

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T he anthropologist and famed love expert Helen Fisher seemed ready to dash into oncoming traffic. We were on a sidewalk in Manhattan, opposite the American Museum of Natural History, and nowhere near

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As the outer-space correspondent at The Atlantic , I spend a lot of time looking beyond Earth’s atmosphere. I’ve watched footage of a helicopter flying on Mars. I’ve watched a livestream of NASA smash

The University of California and its postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers reached a tentative agreement Tuesday that would elevate their pay to among the highest in the nation — but they won