Of the natural gas burned in American homes, just 2.8% is used for cooking, according to a 2015 survey by the US Energy Information Administration. Residential natural-gas use in turn makes up just 15% of total US consumption, a percentage that has fallen over the past decade as natural gas passed coal to become the country’s main power-plant fuel and ...

Patients and their families may see hope in the news that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug to slow the pace of Alzheimer’s disease. Aducanumab is the first medicine authorised to treat what might be an underlying cause of the disease: amyloid beta clumps that accumulate in the brain. Yet the evidence from clinical trials that ...

The last time Geneva served as the venue for a US-Russia summit — in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev, still fresh in his role as Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party, met with Ronald Reagan — the US president remarked that “people didn’t get into trouble when they talked to each other but rather when they talked about each other.” ...