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Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Born into rural poverty, he climbed to the top of the art market. But he fell after being convicted of selling fake and stolen items.

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some scholars are skeptical.

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

Across the country, companies have been installing giant batteries that help them use more wind and solar power. That’s about to get much harder.

The arrival of spring brings joy, and a challenge: finding solutions to increasingly erratic weather.

She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.

A growing body of research suggests that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive decline.

In addition to reductions in agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations.

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

Ranchers in Texas claim livestock was sickened by ‘forever chemicals’ in fertilizer made from sewage sludge. Now Synagro, a Goldman Sachs-backed firm, has lost a deal to manufacture there.

The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.

The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

A new survey found that 11 percent of Americans said they could not pay for medication and medical treatments.

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better.

The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes.