NASA prepares for Armageddon with a tabletop planetary defence exercise
NASA is investigating how best to respond to the possibility of an asteroid or a comet colliding with Earth in fictional situations. Read more...
Larry Kramer, Prophet and Pussycat
On the stage and on the page, his fury was fueled by an often-cloaked belief in the power of love. Read more...
In lean times, fierce dinosaur Allosaurus resorted to cannibalism
The dreaded dinosaur Allosaurus was the scourge of the Jurassic Period landscape some 150 million years ago, an apex predator just as Tyrannosaurus rex was 80 million years later during the Cretaceous Period. Read more...
SpaceX Lifts NASA Astronauts to Orbit, Launching New Era of Spaceflight
The trip to the space station was the first from American soil since 2011 when the space shuttles were retired. Read more...
C.T.E. and a Loved Ones Death Haunt a Clemson Players Family
Nolan Turner caught a game-clinching interception to send Clemson to college footballs title game. Kevin Turner, his father, played in the N.F.L. and died after battling a disease associated with blows to the head. Read more...
What a year it's been for the Downing Street mutt... Dilyn's diary as told by JAN MOIR
Downing Street's dog Dilyn turned one this week and JAN MOIR has looked back on his first year. From being rescued from a breeder, to welcoming baby Wilfred into the world, Dilyn saw it all. Read more...
Practicing Architecture in a Pandemic
A year after opening the Shed, Elizabeth Diller is trying to adjust to a world in which she and colleagues can no longer kick around ideas in person. Read more...
The French Open Is Postponed, to the Surprise of the Tours
Tournament officials said it was impossible to carry out the tennis major as originally planned. Leaders on the mens and womens tours said the decision caught them by surprise. Read more...
Coronavirus China says Wuhan wet market 'victim' not 'cause'
Genetic evidence has confirmed that the virus originated in Chinese bats before it jumped to humans, but the exact location of the transition is unknown. Read more...
Lack of protective gear leaves Mexican nurses battling pandemic in fear
As a nurse on the front lines of Mexico's coronavirus battle, Gisela Hernandez has stayed away from her children for nearly two months, sleeping in a hotel and even her car to avoid infecting them because she feels inadequately protected at work. Read more...
Mark Bebbington album review The performances are first class
Igor Stravinsky, not a great one for dishing out prizes to his colleagues, declared that Poulenc had the greatest melodic gift of any 20th-century composer. Read more...
Atlanta mayor on protests We're better than this as a country
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms addressed clean up efforts and the next steps the city will take after protests turned violent over the death of George Floyd. Read more...
Harland Svare, 89, Giants Linebacker and Young Head Coach, Dies
Brainy more than brawny, he helped put New York in three title games, then became, with the Rams, the youngest head coach in modern N.F.L. history at the time. Read more...
Historic SpaceX U.S. crew launch scrubbed due to weather
SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket company, was forced by foul weather to scrub a planned launch on Wednesday of two Americans into orbit from Florida, a mission that would be the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. Gavino Garay has more. Read more...
U.S. Golf Association Cancels Qualifiers for Multiple Tournaments
This years U.S. Open will host an all-exempt field, the governing body said on Monday. Read more...