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The state’s insurance regulator has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns.

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.

The app has become a mainstay of the video game community and young internet users.

The cook at the London restaurant the Yellow Bittern serves up controversy alongside hearty stews. And it all boils down to class.

In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but did not mention vaccination.

Kyle Diamantas, a former corporate lawyer, is the new director for the F.D.A. food division, which oversees infant formula. He defended a top maker in cases claiming the company had not warned of potential risks to very low-weight babies.

The Texas strip? That state’s lieutenant governor wants to rebrand the cut, but New Yorkers aren’t biting.

Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey.

The announcement follows new fund-raising efforts from rivals like OpenAI, which is set to close a deal that values the company at $300 billion, and Elon Musk’s xAI.

The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire.

From her TriBeCa shop, Saori Kawano has spent decades supplying chefs with knives and housewares, and teaching Americans about the precise pleasures of the cuisine.

The lunar lander is the first of three robotic spacecraft aiming to set down on the moon this year.

Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.

A drizzle of red wine makes for a juicy loaf with a fruity, tangy kick.

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the consequences.

Scientists tested a device that helped volunteers taste flavors meant to represent distant samples of coffee, lemonade, fried eggs, cake and fish soup.

Going case by case, regulators have halted investigations and withdrawn or paused lawsuits against top crypto companies and their executives.