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‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more

Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence

40 Years After the Meltdown, War Layers Another Disaster on Chernobyl

ANDREW E. KRAMER, EVELINA RIABENKO AND BRENDAN HOFFMAN

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt.

Targeted Hunts Were Supposed to Curb ‘Zombie Deer Disease.’ Now What?

JIM ROBBINS AND JULIA RENDLEMAN

In Illinois and other states, officials hoped that culls could halt the progress of chronic wasting disease. Now they are losing hope.

A New Idea to Save the AMOC? Dam the Bering Strait.

RAYMOND ZHONG

Blocking the narrow waterway between Russia and Alaska could help stabilize a vulnerable system of ocean currents, scientists found in a study.

Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination

NASA Curiosity discovery, suicide hotline hope, the AI voice clone upper hand

What NASA's Curiosity Rover found on Mars, how youth suicides dropped after the launch of the 988 crisis line, and what people think of AI voice clones

Zepbound’s and Ozempic’s greatest benefit may be their anti-inflammatory power

A growing body of research suggests that GLP-1 drugs do more than control appetite and blood sugar. They could also fight inflammation

Immaculate Wilderness, Uncertain Future: Paddling the Boundary Waters

STEPHANIE PEARSON

A proposed copper mine in northern Minnesota has become a battleground for politicians and environmentalists — and a pressing reason to explore the waterways.

Pregnancy With Lupus Is Risky. Would She Be Able to Carry Her Baby to Term?

RONI CARYN RABIN AND HEATHER KHALIFA

Fatimah Shepherd’s kidneys were compromised, and pregnancy could send her into kidney failure.

AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance

STEPHANIE NOLEN AND ARLETTE BASHIZI

A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble.

Thanks to GLP-1s, Obesity Experts Are Trying to Understand ‘Food Noise’

GINA KOLATA

Before the rise of GLP-1s, obesity experts didn’t study the internal buzz that compels people to eat. Now that food noise is being switched off, they want to understand it.

People trust vaccine scientists as much as other researchers, poll shows

Roughly seven in 10 people still trust vaccine researchers, a new poll finds. The number is in line with trust for other scientists

Blood filtering could help treat preeclampsia, pilot study suggests

Preeclampsia can be deadly in pregnancy, and aside from delivering the baby, the condition has no targeted treatment. A new study suggests blood filtering with antibodies could help

Iconic Sombrero Galaxy captured in incredible detail, revealing its enormous glowing halo

This galaxy, also known as Messier 104, gets its nickname from its central bulge and outer dust trail, which give it a sombrerolike appearance from our vantage point

60 Countries to Meet on Phasing Out Fossil Fuels but Are Excluding the U.S.

LISA FRIEDMAN

The Trump administration was not invited to the gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia. A White House spokeswoman called the green transition “destructive.”