A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds so severe that some result in amputation.
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Health Experts Warily Eye XBB.1.5, the Latest Omicron Subvariant
A young version of the coronavirus makes up one-quarter of Covid cases across the United States and over 70 percent of new cases in the Northeast.
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These Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea.
The pursuit of robot consciousness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.
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It’s Turtles All the Way Down in the Fossil Record
How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries.
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A Cathedral Tried to Approach Heaven, but the Earth Held a Deep Secret
Flows of spring water cut the planned height of St. John the Divine in half and prompted studies to illuminate the church’s watery past and future.