Science
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The Olympics without Fans Is Harming Athletes’ Performance
Since the modern inception of the Olympic Games in 1896, the international sports competition has not had two summer contests…
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Large Meteor Lights Up Skies In Norway
HELSINKI (AP) — Norwegian experts say an unusually large meteor was visible over large parts of southern Scandinavia and illuminated…
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Enlist the Ocean in Combatting Climate Change, Experts and Advocates Argue
Climate scientists and marine advocates are calling on governments worldwide to look beyond green policymaking when it comes to climate…
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The Crucial Vaccine Benefit We’re Not Talking about Enough
COVID vaccines have proved to be magnificent successes, dramatically decreasing the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. However, there has…
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A Few Days on Antibiotics Are Often as Good as Weeks, Research Shows
My husband has this bad habit. When prescribed a week or two of antibiotics, he rarely completes the full course.…
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Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation
What exactly is Harvard theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb doing co-founding a $1.755 million academic effort to look for UFOs? Yesterday,…
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Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe
Steven Weinberg, who died last week at the age of 88, was not only a Nobel laureate physicist but also…
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How Olympic Tracking Systems Capture Athletic Performances
This year’s Olympic Games may be closed to most spectators because of COVID-19, but the eyes of the world are…
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This Formula Calculates How Many Calories You Burn If You’re Doing Absolutely Nothing
There’s a plate of cookies on my desk. I put it there myself, so I can only blame myself for…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked For Claiming Vaccine Mandates Are ‘Segregation’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused a Georgia restaurant of segregation over the weekend, only to get schooled by Twitter…
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