The Food and Drug Administration is on the verge of announcing one of its most contentious decisions in years: the fate of an Alzheimer’s drug that could be the first treatment approved after nearly two decades of failed efforts to find ways to curb the debilitating disease. On Monday, the agency will rule on the…
Lights have gotten smaller over time, and “any given intensity appears brighter if it’s emitted by a smaller apparent surface versus a larger one,” said Daniel Stern, chief editor of Driving Vision News, a technical journal that covers the automotive lighting industry. “Tall pickups and S.U.V.s and short, small cars are simultaneously popular,” he added.…
Esta transparencia se extiende a otras estrellas de la telerrealidad, dijo Sarwer. Las mujeres de los programas The Real Housewives se han sometido a todo tipo de intervenciones, desde rellenos de labios hasta rejuvenecimiento vaginal. Parte del nuevo despliegue de mejoras estéticas tiene que ver con el estatus: cuando te haces rellenos faciales como las…
La mañana de mi graduación de la secundaria, un collar de perlas hizo un sonido como el de una maraca cuando lo saqué de la caja. Su nota decía: “Al parecer, en mi familia existía la tradición de regalarles un collar de perlas a las mujeres para celebrar su graduación de la secundaria. Pues, bien,…
Artificial intelligence is gradually catching up to ours. A.I. algorithms can now consistently beat us at chess, poker and multiplayer video games, generate images of human faces indistinguishable from real ones, write news articles (not this one!) and even love stories, and drive cars better than most teenagers do. But A.I. isn’t perfect, yet, if…
The number of red knots visiting the Delaware Bay beaches during this spring’s northbound migration unexpectedly dropped to its lowest since tallies began almost 40 years ago, deepening concern about the shorebird’s survival and dealing a sharp setback to a quarter-century of efforts to save it. Conservationists found fewer than 7,000 of the bird’s rufa…
Mr. Shropshire’s own Karastan rug has been in storage at the shop ever since his family welcomed a new puppy to their home last year. (“Dogs, cats and kids keep us going,” he said of the rug-cleaning business.) Mr. Shropshire’s shop has had ties to the people who worked at the mill, less than a…
For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black women. There are photographs from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar of Lil’ Kim, Whitney Houston, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Rihanna. She started storing the images on the…
The actor and comedian Niecy Nash and the musician Jessica Betts married Aug. 29, 2020, at the peak of the pandemic, in an intimate ceremony at their home in Ventura County, Calif. “We only had 24 guests,” noted Ms. Nash, 51, the Emmy winner who many fans may recognize from her longstanding role as Deputy…
Who lost what, exactly, when Naomi Osaka announced the she wouldn’t participate in news conferences at the French Open last week, citing her mental health? The fans lost a few minutes of potentially vulnerable but generally formal interviews with Ms. Osaka. Ms. Osaka was unburdened of what she felt was an irrelevant obligation, but also…