New COVID Variants Have Changed the Game, and Vaccines Will Not Be Enough
We Need Global “Maximum Suppression” At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain…
We Need Global “Maximum Suppression” At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain…
In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster-than-light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s…
Weight lifting, also known as resistance training, has been practiced for centuries as a way of building muscular strength. Research shows that resistance training, whether…
With the U.S. facing vaccination delays because of worker shortages and distribution problems, federal health officials now say it’s OK to push back the second…
Maybe you’re trying to eat healthier these days, aiming to get enough of the good stuff and limit the less-good stuff. You’re paying attention to…
To curb climate change, many experts have called for a massive shift from fossil fuels to electricity. The goal is to electrify processes like heating…
How times have changed since the Apollo era. Within the space of a few days, two space missions from China and the United Arab Emirates…
To solve the mysteries of black holes, a human should just venture into one. However, there is a rather complicated catch: A human can do…
The SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates fast. That’s a concern because these more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 are now present in the U.S., U.K., South Africa, and…
Editor’s note: Varghese Mathai is a physicist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies the flow of fluids and gases. He conducted a study…
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time. But it also left us…
Matter is what makes up the universe, but what makes up matter? This question has long been tricky for those who think about it –…
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard…
The decoy effect: how you are influenced to choose without really knowing it. Price is the most delicate element of the marketing mix, and much…
Let’s say you’re interviewing a new applicant for a job and you feel something is off. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but…
Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know very little about it, other than it is invisible, it fills the…
On September 14, 2020, a new planet was added to the list of potentially habitable worlds in the Solar System: Venus. Phosphine, a toxic gas…
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’d tested positive for COVID-19 was especially concerning because of his age. At 74 years old, Trump is solidly within…