Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates.
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The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
COVID-19 is a tragedy of the commons.
Quantum physics just keeps getting weirder, even as it gets more fascinating. “Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a […]
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The relatively quick evolution of nine unusual shark species has scientists intrigued.
The Twin Jet nebula, shown here, is a stunning example of a bipolar preplanetary nebula. At the center, a dying star is in the final stages of life where it […]
Strange bone circles made from mammoths revealed clues about how ancient communities survived Europe’s last ice age.
New research proposes possible origins of the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua.
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]
A new survey found that 27 percent of millennials are saving more money due to the pandemic, but most can’t stay within their budgets.
New book focuses on some of the world’s most peculiar borderlines.
A new report argues that we stand to gain a lot economically by investing in 5 key areas.
An online tool listed the home of the Black Panther as a trading partner of the United States.
Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility.
Researchers discovered a mysterious quantum effect that breaks a 60-year-old physics theorem.
With 45% of recent college graduates under or unemployed, it’s time to explore new solutions.
If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]
Does a person still get to be “the honorable” if they are tossed out for not being honorable?
In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.
Tardigrades – commonly called “water bears” – were among the payload of an Israeli lunar lander that crashed into the moon in April.
The water tower-shaped craft is an early prototype of Starship, which SpaceX hopes will someday send humans to Mars.
Is there life beyond Earth, even in our Solar System? This mission might be humanity’s best hope of finding it. The biggest question facing humanity might be, “Does life exists beyond […]
Researchers from UCLA invent a device that generates electricity from a rather unusual source.
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]
Fionn Ferreira will receive $50,000 for winning Google’s annual student competition.
In fact, the maximum human lifespan has barely changed since we arrived.
The ultimate lesson from Dr. Birx is one we should never, ever repeat. About a year ago, as the world experienced the deadly “first wave” associated with the coronavirus pandemic, many […]
Hundreds more are documented in Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks.