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Virginia Hughes

Virginia Hughes

Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times

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  • English
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  • Health & Medicine
  • Science

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Recent Articles

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To Solve 3 Cold Cases, This Small County Got a DNA Crash Course (Published 2021)

Forensic genealogy helped nab the Golden State Killer in 2018. Now investigators across the country are using it to revisit hundreds of unsolved crimes.
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Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light (P...

The study, a tour de force in bioengineering, comes after two decades of research on brain-to-brain synchrony in people.
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Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method (Published 2021)

Maryland and Montana have passed the nation’s first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the method that found the Golden State Killer.
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Is It Art? You May Have to Ask a Neanderthal Critic. (Published 2021)

A bone to pick from Germany’s Unicorn Cave. Plus fireflies in sync, peer review in crisis and China’s astronauts at work in their spacesuits.
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F.D.A. Approves GHB, a ‘Date Rape’ Drug, for Rare Sleeping Disorder...

Jazz Pharmaceuticals brought in more than $1.7 billion last year selling GHB to narcolepsy patients. With the new approval, sales could soar.
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Does Social Media Make Teens Unhappy? It May Depend on Their Age. (...

A large study in Britain found two specific windows of adolescence when some teenagers are most sensitive to social media.
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How to Change Minds? A Study Makes the Case for Talking It Out. (Pu...

Researchers found that meaty conversations among several people can align beliefs and brain patterns — so long as the group is free of blowhards.
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With Anxiety on the Rise, Some Children Try ‘Exposure Therapy’ (Pub...

A gold-standard treatment for phobias and anxieties encourages young people to follow an old and simple dictum: Face your fears.
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Bordeaux Wine Snobs Have a Point, According to This Computer Model

With machine learning, scientists are trying to chemically define the murky concept of terroir. The models might be useful for detecting wine fraud.
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How Coffee Farmers in Hawaii Fought Counterfeit Kona Beans

A testing method borrowed from geology helped farmers sue a slew of stores selling supposed “Kona” coffee.
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Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant From Genetically Modifie...

Richard Slayman received the historic procedure in March. The hospital said it had “no indication” his death was related to the transplant.