Tag: nature

Early in the morning of November 15, Moscow time, a Russian missile blasted a Russian satellite to smithereens. The destroyed satellite, Kosmos-1408, had been in orbit for nearly four decades. ...

Earlier this month, the US government recommended that children aged 5 to 11 get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Many parents had been waiting for this announcement since the beginning of ...

How much warming do climate scientists really think is in store for our future, if they had to put a number on it?  World leaders gathering for the U.N. climate ...

In August, the US Department of Agriculture surveyed American animals in hopes of identifying species that may act as reservoirs or hosts for SARS-CoV-2. The federal department confirmed the first ...

As the US enters its second Halloween in a pandemic, COVID-19 is surging again in other parts of the world. But potential treatments continue to crop up, and officials are ...

This post was last updated on October 26, 2021. If there’s one thing we can count on in life, it’s change, and viruses are no exception. Variants of the original ...

Excerpted from MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us by Parag Khanna. Copyright © 2021 by Parag Khanna. Excerpted with permission by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the fall of ...

A spinach weigher in a fresh-cut produce facility that has a ‘digital twin.’ Credit: Genevieve Sullivan, Cornell University Researchers from Cornell University are blending food science expertise and computer programming ...

Trying to cut back on alcohol and considering a move to alcohol-removed wine? Not that long ago, you may have been told, “don’t bother.” Alcohol-free beer wasn’t that bad — ...

A new wave of funding focuses on antiviral nanomaterials as pandemic countermeasures. A flurry of recent papers highlights growing interest in approaches that employ nanomaterials as antiviral countermeasures. Compared with ...