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V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells opened up a whole new class of drugs and helped...

Americans have a growing appetite for avocados, and a single state in Mexico supplies nearly all of the fruit eaten in the United States. This reliance is highlighted when imports...

We’ve had pizza on the brain here at The New York Times food section, ever since Brett Anderson published his excellent, deep dive into the culture of American pizza-making, along...

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world and perhaps the...

“It started with me stalking a nun with a cashmere goat farm,” said Melissa Ventosa Martin, the founder of Old Stone Trade, an online marketplace for wares made by international...

Some 280 million years ago, a large predator glided through the chilly waters of a supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere. The eight-foot-long hunter had tiny limbs, an eel-like body and...

This year will be Zoe Oosting’s seventh summer at the Rockbrook Summer Camp for Girls in western North Carolina, where campers, ages 6 to 16, ride horses through the mountains,...

In its third season, “The Bear,” a television show known for its dedicated hyperrealism, did not disappoint fans looking for real-world culinary references. As Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney (Ayo...

The president of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has developed a prominent series of policy plans to overhaul the federal government under a Republican president, said on...

President Joe Biden told an ally he is weighing whether to drop out of the presidential race, the New York Times reported Wednesday. However, White House spokesman Andrew Bates claimed...