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Kenneth Berry, 41, with his 10-year-old son, Keing, in Los Angeles. Mr. Berry was shot more than 20 years ago. Ivan Kashinsky for The New York Times

For Many Gunshot Victims, Obamacare Gives a Chance to Heal

By SARAH VARNEY

The expansion of state Medicaid programs under the health care law has brought coverage, and necessary treatment, to previously uninsured shooting victims.

A vacuum chamber used to test parts of Astroscale's IDEA OSG 1 satellite at the company's factory in Tokyo. The satellite, scheduled to be launched next year, will compile data on the density of space debris.

Ko Sasaki for The New York Times

Space's Trash Collector? A Japanese Entrepreneur Wants the Job

By MARTIN FACKLER

A start-up company called Astroscale is dedicated to cleaning up some of humanity's hardest-to-reach rubbish, and its plans include a small satellite with an adhesive glue.

A tank containing millions of gallons of molasses erupted in Boston in January 1919, killing 21 people and destroying buildings in the North End.

Associated Press

Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly 'Tsunami of Molasses' of 1919

By ERIN MCCANN

Researchers say they have figured out a piece of the puzzle of why a 2.3 million-gallon spill of molasses from a storage tank in Boston was so deadly, killing 21 people and destroying buildings.

Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

A Conversation With

C. Megan Urry, Peering Into Universe, Spots Bias on the Ground

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS

The first woman to head the Yale physics department — she specializes in the study of black holes — has continued to combat gender inequities in science.

Rachel Levit

The Thin Gene

By PAGAN KENNEDY

The body of a woman whose mutation keeps her on the brink of starvation may hold the secret to treating obesity.

Climate Change

A bloom of algae near Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. The ocean's levels of algae have rapidly increased.

M. Kahru

Global Warming Alters Arctic Food Chain, With Unforeseeable Results

By CARL ZIMMER

The annual production of algae, the base of the food web, increased an estimated 47 percent between 1997 and 2015, and the Arctic Ocean is greening up earlier each year.

Josh Haner/The New York Times

A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change

By TEXT BY ERICA GOODE

Alaska is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the nation. So what are the dozens of villages at imminent risk of destruction to do?

Waves crashing over an experimental sea wall built to protect homes during high tide in Isle of Palms, S.C., last year.

Mic Smith/Associated Press

Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate

By IAN URBINA

Homeowners are slowly growing wary of buying property in the areas most at risk, setting up a potential economic time bomb in an industry that is struggling to adapt.

Image by NASA; text by Andrew C. Revkin

Dot Earth

Under Trump, Will NASA's Space Science Include Planet Earth?

By ANDREW C. REVKIN

Advisors to President-elect Trump see little merit in NASA emphasizing "Earth-centric" science.

• Trump Has Options for Undoing Obama's Climate Legacy

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Your Dog Remembers More Than You Think

By JAMES GORMAN

Researchers are investigating whether dogs share the more complex kind of memory like humans and a few other animals.

Flamingos strutting their stuff at a park in the Camargue region of southern France.

Flamingo Mating Rules: 1. Learn the Funky Chicken

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR

The birds with the largest repertoires of dance moves are the ones who most often succeed in finding mates, researchers have found.

David Piroris, left, and Solomon Ngila of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy's antipoaching dog unit in Kenya, training Maxo.

A Forgotten Step in Saving African Wildlife: Protecting the Rangers

By RACHEL NUWER

Many park personnel, responsible for fending off poachers, go without basic necessities like boots, tents and health insurance. Some groups are trying to change that.

A Breakthrough in C-Section History: Beatrice of Bourbon's Survival in 1337

By HANA DE GOEIJ

Beatrice, the second wife (and second cousin) of the King of Bohemia, and her baby are believed to be the first mother and child to survive a cesarean section, new research has found.

The Hadza tribe of Tanzania lives by subsistence hunting and foraging for berries, honey, baobab fruit and tubers.

Humans Were Born to Move

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Are we fighting thousands of years of evolutionary history and the best interests of our bodies when we sit all day? A study of a modern tribe of hunter-gatherers suggests yes.