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“Wrangel Island was a golden place to live,” Dalén tells the New York Times’ Carl Zimmer. But island life was not all good.

An curved arrow pointing right. Antibiotics, once considered wonder drugs, are becoming increasingly ineffective against bacterial disease. Misuse of the drugs has led to bacterial resistance that ...

At the New York Times, Carl Zimmer points out that “if previous vaccines are any guide, effectiveness [for the coronavirus vaccines] may prove somewhat lower . . . because the people who join ...

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“This points to how sophisticated people were in this time period,” John Kappelman, first author of the new study and a paleoanthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin, tells the New York ...

As debunked ideas from race science experience a resurgence, the history of psychology and eugenics highlight the perils.

The association between bats and Halloween dates back thousands of years, based on the superstition that the flying mammals are omens of death. But for nearly two decades, North American bats have ...

By Carl Zimmer As soon as you put starch in your mouth — whether in the form of a dumpling, a forkful of mashed potatoes or a saltine — you start breaking it down with an enzyme in your saliva.

Carl Campanile is a veteran journalist with the New York Post, principally covering government and politics. Before coming to the Post in 1998, he worked at The Staten Island Advance and the ...

Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized ...