The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel class of treatments that has been greeted with hope, disappointment and skepticism. The drug, donanemab, to be sold under the brand name Kisunla, was shown in studies to modestly slow the pace of cognitive decline in…
PHOTO USA Today Sports Images Plenty of black and gold is likely to appear in Las Vegas for the matchup between the Aces and Indiana Fever. The late tip-off and national TV broadcast features Caitlin Clark’s Fever visiting Vegas and Clark’s former Iowa teammates, Kate Martin. We’ll take a swing at an appealing matchup in…
The older I get, the more I love the Fourth of July. (This might be because, as a kid, I cared about only the promised pyrotechnics: fireworks, sparklers, kissing my seventh-grade crush on the Ferris wheel at the county fair.) When the calendar flips from June to July, it activates some sort of happy Pavlovian…
PHOTO USA Today Sports Images As the July 30 trade deadline draws near, several teams remain undecided on whether to buy or sell. The big names potentially on the block are getting more play in the rumor mill, but there are cheaper options available who could prove to exceed their value at relatively little cost….
Sarah Sze’s studio is an encyclopedic celebration of the human experience. Nineteenth century chronophotography of galloping horses, pre-Columbian cave paintings, and a reproduction of Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” (1656) line the white walls of her split-level New York studio, a former carriage house used by the city’s Gilded Age barons. For Sze, whose cerebral environmental works…
The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts with ants from rival colonies in the Southeast. Combat can leave the ants with leg injuries. But as scientists recently discovered, these ants have evolved an effective wound treatment: amputation. In the journal Current Biology, on…
There is a scene in the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion” in which Ms. Dion describes her dedication to designer heels. “When a girl loves her shoes, she always makes them fit,” the singer said, spreading her fingers to demonstrate how she has contorted her toes to accommodate shoes ranging from size 6 to…
Indiana Fever guard Kristy Wallace (3) scrambles for the ball against Washington Mystics guard Jade Melbourne (5) Wednesday, June 19, 2024, during the game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Stefanie Dolson attempts to continue her hot streak when the Washington Mystics visit the Los Angeles Sparks on Tuesday night. Dolson has scored at least 14…
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Few auto executives are as closely identified with the companies they manage as Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, is. And probably none are more prolific in broadcasting their political views on social media. But as Mr. Musk’s public persona has become increasingly right wing, Tesla appears to be paying a price in sales,…
