Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist, in New York, Oct. 17, 2017. Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, who earned scientific stature and global celebrity by chronicling the distinctive behavior of wild chimpanzees in East Africa, grasped the vast power that lay in careful, mutual observation. (Gabriela Herman/The New York Times) By RHONDA GARELICK We don’t think of Jane Goodall as a style icon. But we should. Style is about having a keen awareness

Tylenol pills in New York on May 22, 2025. Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, sued the makers of Tylenol on Oct. 28, claiming that the companies hid the risks of the drug on brain development of children. (Eric Helgas/The New York Times) By REBECCA ROBBINS, AZEEN GHORAYSHI and J. DAVID GOODMAN Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, sued the makers of Tylenol last week claiming that the companies hid the risks of the drug on brain development in children. T

For an activity most of us spend about a third of our lives doing, there’s a lot scientists still don’t understand about sleep, including why we evolved to do it in the first place. (Hoi Chan/The New York Times) By CAROLINE HOPKINS LEGASPI For an activity most of us spend about a third of our lives doing, there’s a lot scientists still don’t understand about sleep, including why we evolved to do it in the first place. But experts do know that we wouldn’t survive without it, a

By MAGGIE ASTOR It’s that time of year again. School is starting, the days are getting shorter, and the familiar “flu shots available” signs are appearing outside pharmacies. Each year, the flu kills tens of thousands of people in the United States, on average, and hundreds of thousands are hospitalized. How can you protect yourself this season? Here’s what you need to know. Should I get a flu vaccine? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends annual flu shots

By ALEXA ROBLES-GIL and ALI WATKINS Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for the development of molecular building blocks with spaces large enough that gases and other chemicals can flow through them. The cavities on the inside are “almost like rooms in a hotel, so that guest molecules can enter and also exit again from the same material,” Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said during th

A man walks in floodwaters where the vast Tulare Lake once existed outside Corcoran, Calif., March 25, 2023. (Mark Abramson/The New York...

COVID vaccine doses at a vaccination site at a shopping mall in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Jan. 7, 2022. The FDA has approved updated COVID...

An artist’s impression of a star system, UPM J1040−3551, against the backdrop of the Milky Way as observed by Gaia, provided by Jiaxin Zhong/Zenghua Zhang. Scientists find a quadruple star system in our cosmic backyard; two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. (Jiaxin Zhong/Zenghua Zhang via The New York Times) By KATRINA MILLER Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University in China,

A rear-facing image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS from the Perseverance Mars rover as it drives up toward the rim of the planet’s Jezero Crater, Nov. 11, 2024. After several disappointing failures, SpaceX’s Starship — the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars — made it all the way up to space and all the way back down to Earth during a 10th test flight Tuesday night. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via The New York Times) By Kenneth Chang After several

The World Health Organization is warning that current transmission patterns resemble a global outbreak that infected 500,000 people 20...