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Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk, allegedly took several sophisticated-sounding steps to thwart detection. Thompson was killed in a highly surveilled urban setting, but his assailant wore a mask and hood and used a pistol equipped with a silencer to suppress the noise […]

Climbing rates of colon and rectal cancer among people under 50 years old is a striking recent trend that has alarmed and puzzled clinicians racing to figure out why. Now a new study published in Gut offers what might be a crucial insight: specific lipids, or fatty acids, that are abundantly found in ultra-processed foods

December 13, 2024 4 min read Storm-Hunting Planes Are Taking on Atmospheric Rivers to Improve Forecasts Better forecasting would help communities prepare for the extreme weather from atmospheric rivers that causes an average of $1 billion in damages a year on the West Coast By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News A resident looks over a

Many of us do not have to look much farther than our family, circle of friends, or co-workers to know someone who has been touched by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or a neurological disorder such as Alzheimer’s disease. And that doesn’t even take into account the acute daily stress, sometimes reaching toxic levels, that we

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to encapsulate the zeitgeist of the

For all of humanity’s millennia of staring at the stars and decades of launching probes to explore our universe, only two spacecraft carrying working instruments have ever managed to escape the bubble of space governed by our sun. The twin Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 on an epic tour of the outer planets; both swung

December 13, 2024 4 min read Science-Backed Sleep Tips from 2024 to Help You Snooze Better From the “sleepy girl mocktail” to power naps, researchers explained which sleep trends this year really help with quality shut-eye By Lauren J. Young ArtistGNDphotography/Getty Images Between jobs, school, kids, and other physical and mental tolls on our time

As someone who has spent thousands of hours observing the night sky, I like to think that I’m pretty familiar with it and able to navigate my way around with some ease. That’s certainly true on the large scale: bouncing from one constellation to another or searching out bright stars. But when I’m at the

Rachel Feltman: Who here grew up loving animals? Personally, I had a five-foot-long [one-and-a-half-meter-long] iguana who taught himself to use the cat’s litter box. That dude was the best. But, of course, there are plenty of furry and scaly friends we don’t keep in our houses and yards—and for those critters, surviving and thriving in

December 12, 2024 2 min read Mysterious Drone Sightings Illustrate Just How Many Fill America’s Skies Mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey and New York State are underscoring the high number of these vehicles in the U.S. By Meghan Bartels Joel Papalini/Getty Images For weeks, residents of New Jersey and neighboring states have been baffled