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Could a blood test predict if you’ll get Alzheimer’s?

Could a simple blood test predict your risk of getting dementia years, or even decades, before you experience memory loss?That’s the potential promise of a new class of biomarker tests. Two were approved last year by...

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Once in a 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye

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EXPLAINER-What do we know about the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant?

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50 years after the Apollo 17 mission, the moon looks closer than ever

The Apollo 17 command and service module in orbit around the moon on Dec. 14, 1972. (NASA via The New York Times)

Huge meteorite crater discovered in Mahout

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What are whole grains, anyway?

Brown rice in New York, Feb. 16, 2018. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)

NASA Moon capsule Orion due to splash down after record-setting voyage

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In a future filled with EVs, AM radio may be left behind

A radio in a 1947 Town and Country Chrysler Sedan at a garage in Allentown, Pa., Aug. 5, 2014. (Rich Schultz/The New York Times)

Why is it so hard for men to make close friends?

In a 2021 survey of more than 2,000 adults in the United States, less than half of the men said they were truly satisfied with how many friends they had, while 15 percent said they had no close friends at all a fivefold increase since 1990. (Eiko Ojala/The New York Times)

Black tea may benefit your health later in life

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Liftoff! NASA launches mega Moon rocket, ushering new era of exploration

The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 16, 2022.

Is it better to brush before breakfast or after?

A photo illustration of a toothbrush, instead of a fork, beside a breakfast plate, in New York, Oct. 7, 2022. (Aileen Son/The New York Times)

Can’t sleep? Try sticking your head in the freezer.

In the new book The Sleep Prescription, the psychologist Aric Prather offers tips for better rest without reaching for a pill. (Rachel Levit Ruiz/The New York Times)

Zinc? Honey? Ginger? What actually helps when you have a cold or the flu?

Ginger root for throat-soothing tea, one of the possible cold and flu solutions at home, in New York, Oct. 16, 2022. (Molly Matalon/The New York Times)

Cholera outbreaks surge worldwide as vaccine supply drains

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‘3,000 years of history are literally just beneath our feet’

Residents look at the site of an ancient tomb discovered beneath a street in a residential district north of Lima, Peru, Sept. 30, 2022. (Marco Garro/The New York Times)
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