Astronomers Have Discovered an Alien Planet With Three Suns
To us humans, a single Sun feels completely normal, but our Solar System is actually a weird outlier. Most stars in the Milky Way galaxy have at…
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Reports of about 30 deaths among elderly nursing home residents who received the Pfizer vaccine have made international headlines. Read More
After 35 years of sharing everything from a love for jazz music to tubes of lip gloss, twins Kimberly and Kelly Standard assumed that when they became… Read More
On Sunday morning, Virgin Orbit became the third privately funded American rocket company to reach orbit—and the only one to accomplish the feat from mid-air. The company’s liquid-fueled… Read More
The "instant on" feature on new Xbox Series S/X consoles could suck up a total of 4 billion kWh—the equivalent of a year's operation for a large… Read More
If Covid-19 Did Start With a Lab Leak, Would We Ever Know?
“WE FIND OURSELVES 10 months into one of the most catastrophic global health events of our lifetime,” wrote Stanford University immunologist and bio-threat expert David Relman in November,…
Energy consumption from Bitcoin mining is massive, and people are taking notice. The increases have been scaling fast, with mining energy usage quickly surpassing the totals of… Read More
Amutation found in fast-spreading coronavirus variants does not negate the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, researchers reported late Thursday. Read More
For COVID-19 researchers, the new year brings a strong sense of déjà vu. As in early 2020, the world is anxiously watching a virus spread in one… Read More
A newly developed glue that gets its stickiness from a magnetic field could lead to serious energy and cost savings for companies that need to stick things… Read More