2024 Space and Astronomy Events Calendar

Jump to: The New York Times has offered this calendar to readers since 2017. It’s a collection of newsworthy events in spaceflight and astronomy curated by the paper’s journalists. The entries below these instructions will be updated regularly to adjust dates and revise information in the calendar’s entries. New events will be added and …

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The Sex-Obsessed Marsupials That Will Sleep When They’re Dead

Scurrying along the dense brush of coastal woodlands and forests, the small, mouselike antechinus appears more unassuming than many of Australia’s marsupials. But for the three weeks of their breeding season, the males transform into absolute sex-obsessed lotharios. “They have this super bizarre breeding system, which is quite common among flies and some fish, …

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Runner With Long Covid Creates Flagstaff’s Dream Run Camp

Never one to waste a spare moment, Matt Fitzgerald clambered into the second row of his Mazda CX-90 on a recent weekday morning and cracked open his MacBook so that he could work on another book. Mr. Fitzgerald, 52, is many things — writer, public speaker, coach — but mostly he is prolific. He …

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New Criteria Identify Sepsis in Children With Infection

New criteria for pediatric sepsis, based on a novel score that predicts mortality in children with suspected or confirmed infection, perform better than existing organ dysfunction scores and criteria and have the potential to improve clinical care globally, researchers say. Current pediatric-specific criteria for sepsis were published in 2005, based on expert opinion. In …

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Doc Goes Missing From Shift; Patient-Centered Long COVID Research; Science Sleuth

Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Emergency Medicine Chair Unconscious During Supervision The head of the emergency medicine department at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia was disciplined after skipping out on his supervision duties to undergo a diagnostic gastrointestinal procedure …

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