Research
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World
Trial of New Alzheimer’s Drug Reports Disappointing Results
A closely watched clinical trial of a potential Alzheimer’s drug failed to prevent or slow cognitive decline, another disappointment in the long ...
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Health
Gun deaths surged during the pandemic’s first year, the C.D.C. reports.
Gun deaths reached the highest number ever recorded in the United States in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, as gun-related homicides surged ...
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World
Philip J. Hilts, 74, Dies; Reporter Exposed a Big-Tobacco Cover-up
Philip J. Hilts, who as a science reporter for The New York Times in 1994 exposed a tobacco company’s decades-long cover-up of its own research ...
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Health
Scientists Question Data Behind an Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug
A small biotech company that trumpeted an exciting new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is now under fire for irregularities in its research ...
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Margaret M. McGowan, Who Expanded the Field of Dance History, Dies at 90
Margaret M. McGowan, a British cultural historian who created a new international area of academic study, now known as early dance, and received ...
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Politics
Democrats Agree to Pay $113,000 to Settle Campaign Spending Inquiry
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic Party have agreed to pay $113,000 in fines to settle a Federal ...
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World
David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71
David Boggs, an electrical engineer and computer scientist who helped create Ethernet, the computer networking technology that connects PCs to ...
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Business
Seen From Space: Huge Methane Leaks
If the world is going to make a dent in emissions of methane, a potent planet-warming gas, targeting the largest emitters would likely be the ...
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World
Wealth Inequality Is the Highest Since World War II
Gross domestic product is a useful metric of a nation’s economic success, but what you’d also like to know is who reaps the benefit when it grows ...
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Arts
New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis
When the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, Julius Ringel, a major general in the German army, took an active role in initiating illegal excavations ...
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