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Woman Wins Malpractice Suit Over Gender Surgery as a Minor

In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards.

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Research Finds Interaction With Father, Not Mother, Affects Child Health

A long-term study of 292 families linked fathers’ parenting style to their children’s heart health years later. To researchers’ surprise, no such link was found with mothers.

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Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects

The court ruled that construction can restart on a wind farm off the coast of New York State. The Trump administration had ordered work to stop in December.

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N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Seeks Whistle-Blower Protection

Jenna Norton, a National Institutes of Health employee, has been an outspoken critic of the administration’s research cuts and has been on paid leave.

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Radar Scans of Antarctica Offer Clues to What’s Happening on Jupiter’s Moon

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ocean moon of Europa.

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Algae Growth on Greenland’s Ice Contributes to Melting, Studies Show

New studies show how algae grows on ice and snow, creating “dark zones” that exacerbate melting in the consequential region.

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Snow Drought in the West Reaches Record Levels

Warm temperatures and extremely low snowfall threaten water resources for the year.

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Rare Albatross Coasts Above California Waters Far From Home

The unexpected sighting of a waved albatross, which was thousands of miles from its typical range, earned it a label ornithologists reserve for the unexpected: an avian “vagrant.”

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Drilling Through the Thwaites Glacier for Clues to Its Melting

A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot water to punch through ice.

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Morris Waxler, F.D.A. Official Who Switched Stance on Lasik, Dies at 88

While at the federal agency, he approved the laser device for eye surgery but later warned of its potential to cause harm.

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