Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists for Research About Temperature and Touch
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were honored for their discoveries about how heat, cold and touch can initiate signals in the nervous system.
Shopping for Decorative Boxes
The best decorative boxes are both storage containers and functional art: They corral little things like jewelry and office supplies, but they’re also interesting on their own. “Instead of using a plastic container, you can get something like an inlaid wood box, which just upgrades the experience exponentially,” said Alyssa Kapito, an interior designer in…
Johnson & Johnson to Seek F.D.A. Authorization for Booster Shot
WASHINGTON — Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask federal regulators early this week to authorize a booster shot of its coronavirus vaccine, according to officials familiar with the company’s plans. The firm is the last of the three federally authorized vaccine providers to call for extra injections, amid mounting evidence that at least the…
Jean-Georges Vongerichten to Put His Stamp on the Tin Building
In his most ambitious project to date, the chef and restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten will fill the Seaport District’s Tin Building with markets, dining counters and restaurants, to open in the spring. Mr. Vongerichten’s company will run everything in the 53,000-square-foot space. Built on the Manhattan waterfront in 1907, the building, covered in corrugated tin, originally…
Fauci: Americans Should Get Vaccinated Even if Merck’s Covid Pill Cuts Deaths
As the nation’s death toll climbed above 700,000 in October, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an adviser on the pandemic to President Biden, emphasized the need for the 70 million Americans who are eligible for a vaccine to get immunized during interviews on Sunday morning talk shows. “Many of those deaths were unavoidable but many, many…
The Delta Variant Caused a Spike in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents
Although nursing home deaths from Covid-19 remain dramatically down from their peak at the end of last year, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis shows a significant uptick in August as the Delta variant swept through the country. After declining for months, largely because of the federal effort to vaccinate residents, the number of deaths rose…
A Bag Returns From the Year 2000
Fashion Week is back in full force, and there’s a lot to see. Blink (or scroll too fast on Instagram) and you’ll miss the details: tiny bags, tall shoes, feathered hats, leather capes and diamond dog collars. So as part of a new series, Wow Moment, we’ll spotlight things we saw on the runways that…
Diapers Are the Latest Pandemic Shortage
For the families who make it to the store, diapers aren’t always in stock. Amanda Trussell, the mother of a 2-year-old boy, said that diapers had been hard to find near her home in Junction City, Kan., even before the pandemic started and that store shelves had only gotten more empty in the last year…
We’re All On the Red Carpet Now
PARIS — The marquee outside the Théâtre du Châtelet, the gilded 19th-century musical theater on the Right Bank, cast a red glow over the fans thronged rows deep in the square outside on Saturday night. A forest of smartphones was held aloft, waving in the night air like a host of alien palm fronds, as…
Discovering the Irish Loop in Newfoundland, Canada
“It looks like the edge of the world out here,” my wife, Holly, mused, not disapprovingly. Our picnic blanket was spread out on a high cliff, with green-capped rock stretching alongside us, endless blue ocean in front. It was the first of many leisurely breaks we would take on our slow road trip through Newfoundland’s…