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Neutrinos Are Shrinking, and That’s a Good Thing for Physics

✇NYT > Science
By:Katrina Miller
10 April 2025 at 13:09
A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe.

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A spectrometer of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment in Germany in 2016.

Chinese Lunar Rocks Suggest a Thirsty Far Side of the Moon

✇NYT > Science
By:Katrina Miller
9 April 2025 at 10:00
Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see from Earth might be drier than the near side.

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An image released by the Chinese National Space Administration showing the Chang’e-6 mission’s lander-ascender on the moon before it returned a sample of lunar soil to Earth.

Experts Doubt Kennedy’s Timetable for Finding the Cause of Autism

✇NYT > Science
By:Christina Jewett
11 April 2025 at 12:17
The nation’s health secretary announced that he planned to invite scientists to provide answers by September, but specialists consider that target date unrealistic.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his pledge to discover the reason for the increasing rates of autism during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday.

One-Third of Maternal Deaths Occur Long After Delivery, Study Finds

✇NYT > Science
By:Roni Caryn Rabin
9 April 2025 at 16:31
Pregnancy-related mortality has risen sharply, and doctors have overlooked a particularly dangerous period: from six weeks to one year after the birth.

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The study was based on data from the C.D.C., which identified the risk of later maternal deaths — those that occur from six weeks to one year after the birth.

Xavier Le Pichon, Who Modeled Movement of Earth’s Crust, Dies at 87

✇NYT > Science
By:Adam Nossiter
9 April 2025 at 14:57
With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.”

King K. Holmes, a Pioneer in STD Research, Dies at 87

✇NYT > Science
By:Michael S. Rosenwald
8 April 2025 at 12:15
He took a down-to-earth approach to sexually transmitted infections, a subject no one wanted to discuss, arriving at novel methods of treatment and prevention.

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Dr. Holmes in 1988. He called the lack of funding for studying sexually transmitted diseases a “conspiracy of silence” that was “ignorant,” “appalling” and “a disgrace.”

Anti-Anxiety Drugs in Water Change Salmon Behavior, Study Finds

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Rebecca Dzombak
10 April 2025 at 13:00
Researchers studying pharmaceutical pollution tracked salmon that had been exposed to anti-anxiety medication. The fish appeared to lose their inhibitions.

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“We know a lot from laboratory studies that drugs can change animal behavior, but how that plays out in natural ecosystems is very hard to forecast,” one researcher said.

Xavier Le Pichon, Who Modeled Movement of Earth’s Crust, Dies at 87

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Adam Nossiter
9 April 2025 at 14:57
With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.”

Trump Administration Cuts Princeton Funding to Study Climate Change

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Brad Plumer and Austyn Gaffney
10 April 2025 at 00:39
The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.

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The cuts included funding for a collaborative program between NOAA and Princeton University. One of the program’s meteorologists, Syukuro Manabe, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021.
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