New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
Flowers for Karon Blake, 13, who was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., in January 2023. Gun-related deaths were two to four times higher among Black and Native American youth than among white youth.
Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.
Students at Cumberland Elementary School in Des Plaines, Ill., where a board was dedicated to cicada artwork.
Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
The Food and Drug Administration said regulators had examined 201 commercial dairy samples, including milk, cottage cheese and sour cream, and had so far not found evidence that potentially infectious virus was on grocery shelves.
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
Andrew Witty, the chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, acknowledged before the Senate Finance Committee that hackers had found a weakness in its cybersecurity that forced the shutdown of a vast billing and payments system.
Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.
The low water levels that choked cargo traffic were more closely tied to the natural climate cycle than to human-caused warming, a team of scientists has concluded.
Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.
The Biden administration is tightening efficiency rules for water heaters, stoves and other appliances, and conservative politicians are dialing up their criticisms.
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiter’s orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.
Six decades ago, Mr. Dwight’s shot at becoming the first Black astronaut in space was thwarted by racism and politics. Now, at 90, he’s finally going up.
“My whole life has been about getting things done,” said Edward Dwight, a retired pilot, current sculptor and future crew member on a Blue Origin mission into space. “This is the culmination.”
For an hour each week for the past 11 months, Brenden Lake, right, a psychologist at New York University, with his wife Tammy Kwan, has been attaching a camera to their daughter Luna and recording things from her point of view.
Responding to fears of a “honeybee collapse,” 30 states have passed laws to protect the pollinators. But when they invaded my house, I learned that the honeybees didn’t need saving.
Wild Coast residents demonstrated against Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to start seismic surveys for petroleum exploration at Mzamba Beach, Sigidi, South Africa, in 2021.
In a study, improved performance with activities such as 800-meter runs, curl-ups and standing jumps was linked with lower risk of mental health disorder.
Northern spotted owl populations have declined by up to 80 percent over the last two decades. As few as 3,000 remain on federal lands, compared with 12,000 in the 1990s.
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.
Dr. Sanjeev Arora, a gastroenterologist in Albuquerque, founded Project ECHO in the early 2000s to connect primary care doctors in sparsely populated areas with specialists. ECHO’s New Mexico hepatitis C program has provided treatment for more than 10,000 patients.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is rolling out two new exhibition halls and making its scientists more accessible. And don’t forget the dinosaurs.
“Happy” (short for Haplocanthosaurus delfsi), a 70-foot-long, 14-foot-high sauropod, dominates the newly renovated main visitor hall at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History — and serves as the museum’s logo.
The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.
Public health groups supporting the ban of menthol cigarettes cited years of data suggesting that the cigarettes, long marketed to African American smokers, make it more palatable to start smoking and more difficult to stop.
The first life-size representation of a ritual ballplayer found to date in the Huasteca, a tropical region spanning parts of several states along the Gulf Coast of Mexico, on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas explains to visitors that Nevada and other states also played a role — for better or worse — in the creation of nuclear energy.
In her new book, Beth Linker, a historian of science at the University of Pennsylvania, confronts conventional wisdom about good posture. “It’s fake news,” she said.
The fossils found in 2006 in the Montana sandstone, now on view at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, were named “the dueling dinosaurs” because they featured what appeared to be a Triceratops and a Tyrannosaurus locked in a death match.
Of the 160 whales stranded near the town of Dunsborough on Thursday morning, more than 100 were returned to the ocean. Twenty-nine others, however, died on the beach.
The administration issued a major climate regulation aimed at virtually eliminating carbon emissions from coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels and a driver of global warming.
Administration officials worry their plans to fight climate change could falter unless electric grids can quickly expand to handle more wind and solar power.
The court’s ruling could extend to at least half a dozen other states that have similarly restrictive bans, and the implications of the case could stretch beyond abortion.
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