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The app, hailed as Facebook’s growth engine, has privately wrestled with retaining and engaging teenagers, according to internal documents.

“It causes huge distress to tell a family, ‘We can’t serve you,’” said one state hospice organization director.

The elaborate journey of the robotic spacecraft will offer close encounters with some of the solar system’s least understood objects.

Keeping culinary traditions going sometimes requires adapting to the realities of daily life.

In a vast odyssey across the solar system, the mission will study asteroids known as Trojans that may contain secrets of how the planets ended up in their current orbits.

The Microsoft-owned service had censored posts in China, in compliance with the country’s laws, to operate there.

Rising immunity and modest changes in behavior may explain why cases are declining, but much remains unknown, scientists say.

Coronaviruses discovered in Laotian bats are surprisingly adept at infecting human cells, showing that such deadly features can indeed evolve outside of a lab.

The actor who played Captain Kirk played the role of pitchman for Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company at a time that it is facing a number of workplace and business difficulties.

Hot Singles, a weekly email newsletter, evokes nostalgia for a simpler approach to finding romance, before dating apps were ubiquitous.

The new recommendations are aimed at food manufacturers and restaurants. Some experts say they don’t go far enough.

The actor who played Captain Kirk and three others will lift off soon in a tourist spacecraft built by Jeff Bezos’ company.

“This new group can do all the fancy footwork it wants, but China’s not going to cooperate,” one expert said.

Despite an overall decline in office leasing in the United States, technology companies gobbled up more space in the Seattle area than they had the previous year.

Viral evolution is a long game. Here’s where scientists think we could be headed.

The 50 places in America we’re most excited about right now.

A group of Indigenous chefs is releasing a virtual cookbook featuring digital issues, webinars and videos to reclaim narratives about Native foods.

Hospital staff members looked the other way while Ricardo Cruciani addicted vulnerable women to pain medications and assaulted them, according to a new lawsuit.

Stewed into a weeknight chicken dish, these vegetables become jammy, rich and so silky.

Employees are divided over Frances Haugen, a former product manager who testified that the company was putting profit before safety.

Parents are sneaking carbon dioxide monitors into their children’s schools to determine whether the buildings are safe.

Vaccine makers are betting that the mRNA technology powering two successful Covid vaccines will help curb the tragic global death toll from the flu.

At the heart of the legal battle is the power Apple wields over its lucrative App Store.

Inspired by German Hamburg steak, Japanese hambagu and other seasoned patties of the world, this hamburger steak plate delivers a kind of nostalgic comfort.

Among roosting bats in parts of Africa, the inside of a drop toilet can be a lovely place to hang.

Mary Taylor is betting that curious consumers will want well-made bottles, labeled with just the facts.

Myocarditis, a rare side effect, occurs mostly after the second dose. So in some countries, officials are trying out single doses for children.

Gunpowder used in cannons helped change the nature of warfare, but it took a while to get the recipe just right.

Malaria kills about 500,000 people each year, about half of them children in Africa. The new vaccine isn’t perfect, but it will help turn the tide, experts said.

How Jonathan Kanter, the Biden administration’s choice to be the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, became a progressive foe of Big Tech.

Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan were honored for work that spurred research into new drugs and reduced the effect of chemistry on the environment.

Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.

Early entries in the genre were more like novelties. Today, they’re encyclopedic examinations of the universe of a show, movie or game — with recipes.

An actress and a director traveled to the International Space Station, aiming to shoot scenes from the first feature film made in orbit.

An actress and a director will head to the International Space Station, aiming to shoot scenes from the first feature film to rely on scenes shot in orbit.

When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices.

The chef and cookbook author is heading up a new imprint to give chefs of color a leg up in the historically insular publishing industry.

It’s the first study of individualized brain stimulation to treat severe depression. Sarah’s case raises the possibility the method may help people who don’t respond to other therapies.

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were honored for their discoveries about how heat, cold and touch can initiate signals in the nervous system.

Many dog fanciers like to trace their favorite breed to antiquity, but the researchers who study the modern and ancient DNA of dogs have a different perspective.

A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.

Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager who left the company in May, revealed that she had provided internal documents to journalists and others.

In an internal memo, Facebook defended itself and said that social media was not a primary cause of polarization.

It’s a never-ending cycle of “Night of the Living Dead-meets-Dracula” in the world of green and leafy things.

The Alpha variant traveled more efficiently in small droplets, two new studies found. The Delta variant may have continued this evolution.

For his October menu, David Tanis bookends a hearty, just-cheesy-enough main with red wine poached pears and a light, crisp romaine salad.

The social network has been all hands on deck as it grapples with revelations that it knew the harmful effects its Instagram photo-sharing app was having on teenagers.

There’s more in that cloud of bugs than meets the eye.

There’s more in that cloud of bugs than meets the eye.

Now that it has stopped selling most flavored pods, Juul has become far less popular with teens than brands offering disposable fruit- and candy-flavored devices.