Dr. Raymond Damadian, who built the first magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which revolutionized doctors’ ability to diagnose cancer and other illnesses — but who, to his dismay, saw the Nobel Prize for the science behind it go to two others — died on Aug. 3 at his home in Woodbury, N.Y. He was 86. The…
Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking.
Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Wednesday delivered a sweeping rebuke of her agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had failed to respond quickly enough and needed to be overhauled. In a meeting with senior staff, Dr. Walensky outlined in broad terms a plan…
Good morning. Tuna continue to crash around the New York Bight eating baitfish, and fishermen I know continue to drop off gifts of belly and loin. A recipe I’ve been making a lot, which you could make with yellowfin or salmon from the store, is this East Coast take on Hawaiian poke (above). I took…
On a sticky June afternoon at the Balloon Saloon, a party store in Tribeca, a casual shopper would have found an array of stick-on piercings, a host of glow-in-the-dark finger puppets, a shocking selection of fake excrement and one pop star giggling about it all. Rina Sawayama wandered through the aisles squeaking with equal parts…
The Pastry Chefs Making Jam the Star Jam, that reliable symbol of domesticity, often gets disregarded as nut butter’s strawberry-flavored sideshow. But recently, a group of female pastry chefs have been upgrading the condiment to the main event — and moving beyond the expected fruits as they do. Among the pan dulce that Teresa Finney,…
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The first look at Matthieu Blazy’s much-anticipated debut for Bottega Veneta was none other than a plain ribbed cotton tank top. At Prada, a slim-fitting undershirt-style white tank, this one featuring a small triangular logo at the scooped neckline, opened the brand’s fall 2022 show (it’s available on the Prada website for $995). On Chloé’s…
There are few things better than a perfectly executed dish in which you can taste the three or four ingredients. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It followed me like a mirage, a Julia Roberts-size phantom of tomato essence in noodle form. When the waiter came back to ask if I wanted cheese on my…
My daughter always wanted to be a teacher. She also knew it wasn’t a lucrative field by a long shot, so before she enrolled in college, she got smart about loan-forgiveness programs for teachers. Now her education is almost paid off. The problem: My brother is angry about this. His son incurred a lot of…