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Read More »Will Climate Change Transform the Florida Dream?
In 1957, my grandparents moved from Provincetown, Mass., to Stuart, Fla., bringing with them my mother, who was 11 at the time, and her three brothers. For the next half-century, my family lived the Florida dream. My grandfather helped develop Sailfish Point, an upscale housing community on a spit of …
Read More »Elon Musk Shows Off Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ That Drives Itself
After years of promises, Tesla on Thursday unveiled a car that Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, said will be able to drive itself without human supervision. Mr. Musk has said the vehicle will add trillions of dollars to the company’s stock market value and fuel its growth. The “robotaxi,” …
Read More »The Endless Downfall of a Crypto Power Couple
He was a wealthy cryptocurrency executive with a shiny white Porsche and a luxury condo in the Bahamas. She was a crypto policy expert with political ambitions, advocating for the industry in Washington. A romance blossomed after they were brought together by an unlikely matchmaker: Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of …
Read More »Frances Conley, Neurosurgeon Who Protested Sexism, Dies at 83
Dr. Frances Conley made national headlines in 1991 when she resigned from her position at Stanford University School of Medicine, saying that sexism had made her job untenable. At the time, she was a tenured professor and one of the country’s only female neurosurgeons. For decades she had played along …
Read More »In a First, a Gas Utility Is Sued Over Global Warming Deception
Oregon officials have added the state’s largest natural gas utility as a defendant in their $50 billion lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their contribution to climate change. The suit — the first to make climate-related deception claims against a utility, experts said — alleges that the company, NW Natural, …
Read More »Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Moves Like the Solar System’s Biggest Kickball
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is one of the solar system’s most astonishing marvels. An elliptical storm with inky swirls of burnt orange and dulled copper, it is longer than the Earth is wide, and its winds screech through the tops of the planet’s clouds at 400 miles per …
Read More »Billy Shaw, a Singular Hall of Fame Lineman, Dies at 85
Billy Shaw, an offensive guard for the Buffalo Bills who was known as a Southern gentleman off the field but a terror on it, and who became the only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to play his entire career in the American Football League, died on Friday …
Read More »What Does It Mean to Be Immunocompromised?
Kaley Karaffa had just turned 28 when the reality of having a weakened immune system as a cancer patient started to sink in. A few weeks earlier, at an annual medical exam, Ms. Karaffa had expressed concern to her doctor about enlarged lymph nodes near her collarbone. Testing showed that …
Read More »How Back-to-Back Hurricanes Harm Mental Health
As Hurricane Milton battered Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday, Chloe Ottani followed the news with horror from her parents’ Connecticut home. She had just evacuated her apartment at the University of Tampa for the second time in two weeks. Ms. Ottani and other students were evacuated on Tuesday as Milton …
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