Technology
How to Make a Fitbit for an Elephant
The accelerometers give scientists information about whether animals are swimming, walking, running, or even sprinting up a hill.
It’s Time for a National Pandemic Prediction Agency
A federal office that collects outbreak data, models epidemics, and spreads the word to the public could keep the next Covid from...
What Will it Take to Make Covid-19 Vaccines Variant-Proof?
As emerging mutations threaten the progress made against the pandemic, scientists and regulators are racing to figure out a process...
How to Use Your Speedometer to Figure Out Where Your Car...
You should never drive in a car with no windows. But in case you ever find yourself in one, you can use physics to get your bearings.
US Cities Are Way Underreporting Their Carbon Footprints
A modeling system called Vulcan shows that on average, cities across the country pollute 18.3 percent more than they’ve estimated.
Those Most Likely to Get Covid Are Last in Line for Vaccines
Distribution plans that favor people with time and internet access hurt Black and Latinx people disproportionately.
The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam
How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of...
February’s Gonna Be a Big Month for Mars
On the 9th, the first of three spacecraft will arrive at the Red Planet and inaugurate a new era of Martian exploration.
How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
To understand how universes might inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital...
Dozens of Egyptian Tombs Will Be Unearthed at Saqqara Necropolis
Archaeologists found the entrance to the unexplored burial shaft earlier this week.
