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Kenneth Berry, 41, with his 10-year-old son, Keing, in Los Angeles. Mr. Berry was shot more than 20 years ago.
Kenneth Berry, 41, with his 10-year-old son, Keing, in Los Angeles. Mr. Berry was shot more than 20 years ago. Ivan Kashinsky for The New York Times
For Many Gunshot Victims, Obamacare Gives a Chance to Heal
The expansion of state Medicaid programs under the health care law has brought coverage, and necessary treatment, to previously uninsured shooting victims.
 
A vacuum chamber used to test parts of Astroscale's IDEA OSG 1 satellite at the company's factory in Tokyo. The satellite, scheduled to be launched next year, will compile data on the density of space debris.
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
By MARTIN FACKLER
A start-up company called Astroscale is dedicated to cleaning up some of humanity's hardest-to-reach rubbish, and its plans include a small satellite with an adhesive glue.
A tank containing millions of gallons of molasses erupted in Boston in January 1919, killing 21 people and destroying buildings in the North End.
Associated Press
By ERIN MCCANN
Researchers say they have figured out a piece of the puzzle of why a 2.3 million-gallon spill of molasses from a storage tank in Boston was so deadly, killing 21 people and destroying buildings.
C. Megan Urry
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A Conversation With
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
The first woman to head the Yale physics department — she specializes in the study of black holes — has continued to combat gender inequities in science.

Rachel Levit
By PAGAN KENNEDY
The body of a woman whose mutation keeps her on the brink of starvation may hold the secret to treating obesity.
Climate Change
A bloom of algae near Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. The ocean's levels of algae have rapidly increased.
M. Kahru
By CARL ZIMMER
The annual production of algae, the base of the food web, increased an estimated 47 percent between 1997 and 2015, and the Arctic Ocean is greening up earlier each year.

Josh Haner/The New York Times
By TEXT BY ERICA GOODE
Alaska is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the nation. So what are the dozens of villages at imminent risk of destruction to do?
Waves crashing over an experimental sea wall built to protect homes during high tide in Isle of Palms, S.C., last year.
Mic Smith/Associated Press
By IAN URBINA
Homeowners are slowly growing wary of buying property in the areas most at risk, setting up a potential economic time bomb in an industry that is struggling to adapt.

Image by NASA; text by Andrew C. Revkin
Dot Earth
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Advisors to President-elect Trump see little merit in NASA emphasizing "Earth-centric" science.
• Trump Has Options for Undoing Obama's Climate Legacy
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Your Dog Remembers More Than You Think
By JAMES GORMAN
Researchers are investigating whether dogs share the more complex kind of memory like humans and a few other animals.
Flamingos strutting their stuff at a park in the Camargue region of southern France.
Flamingo Mating Rules: 1. Learn the Funky Chicken
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
The birds with the largest repertoires of dance moves are the ones who most often succeed in finding mates, researchers have found.
David Piroris, left, and Solomon Ngila of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy's antipoaching dog unit in Kenya, training Maxo.
A Forgotten Step in Saving African Wildlife: Protecting the Rangers
By RACHEL NUWER
Many park personnel, responsible for fending off poachers, go without basic necessities like boots, tents and health insurance. Some groups are trying to change that.
Beatrice of Bourbon
A Breakthrough in C-Section History: Beatrice of Bourbon's Survival in 1337
By HANA DE GOEIJ
Beatrice, the second wife (and second cousin) of the King of Bohemia, and her baby are believed to be the first mother and child to survive a cesarean section, new research has found.
The Hadza tribe of Tanzania lives by subsistence hunting and foraging for berries, honey, baobab fruit and tubers.
Humans Were Born to Move
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Are we fighting thousands of years of evolutionary history and the best interests of our bodies when we sit all day? A study of a modern tribe of hunter-gatherers suggests yes.
 
Part of the work at the Flatiron Institute involves complicated numerical simulations of exploding stars, as shown here.
James Simons's Foundation Starts New Institute for Computing, Big Data
By KENNETH CHANG

A vertically exaggerated image of part of the Utopia Planitia region of Mars. The scalloped depressions have long hinted at water ice beneath the surface.
An Ice Sheet the Size of New Mexico Hidden in Martian Crater
By KENNETH CHANG

With Shifts in National Mood Come Shifts in Words We Use
By STEPH YIN

Researchers found that we leave,
Your Phone Carries Chemical Clues About You, but There Are Limits to Using Them
By JOANNA KLEIN

How Cassini Will Begin Its Date With Death on Saturn
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By C. CLAIBORNE RAY

 
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