One of the lesser-known achievements of the Cold War-era Space Race is the Soviet successes in landing probes on the incredibly harsh and unforgiving surface of Venus,…
When pundits, politicians, or advocates have talked about the need to reduce fossil fuel production to combat climate change, one of the most common rejoinders has been… Read More
A pair of Australian siblings are some of the rarest humans ever documented, according to their doctors. They say the brother and sister are semi-identical twins, sharing… Read More
Some lawmakers in Texas are apparently very unworried about the growing number of epidemics across the country involving diseases once nearly eradicated by vaccines, including a five-county… Read More
Facebook is gunning for creator-subscription service Patreon’s business–but on much less generous terms. Read More
The Federal Trade Commission is launching a new task force focused on the tech industry, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, with a broad anti-trust mission…
Half a century after Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton made us fear disease as much as dinosaurs and robots, the classic sci-fi novel The Andromeda Strain is… Read More
Moms and dads shouldn’t expect their sleep habits to bounce back to the way they were before kids for at least the first six years of their… Read More
The day started with an intense tropical storm consuming San Francisco, but by evening the clouds had parted just in time for a group of grinning and… Read More
In June, Facebook’s head of news partnerships announced that the social network was going to fund news shows for its Watch video service. “Watch is the destination… Read More
