Technology
Covid Vaccines in Phase III, New Risk Calculators, and...
Catch up on the most important updates from this week.
Why Is It So Hard to Study Covid-Related Smell Loss?
Patients have long reported the sudden inability to smell. But restrictions on in-person exams are complicating efforts to figure...
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How the Pandemic Transformed This Songbird’s Call
When the San Francisco Bay Area locked down, urban noise levels plummeted. In response, the white-crowned sparrow changed its tune.
A Trump-Biden Debate Without Climate Change Is Inexcusable
The West is on fire, the Gulf Coast is under water, and voters want candidates to talk about the environment.
Can a Genetically Modified Bug Combat a Global Farm Plague?
Biotech company Oxitec has created a caterpillar with self-destructing eggs in an attempt to curb agricultural damage. But will other...
Meet Curly, the Curling Robot That Beats the Pros
Curling is one of the world's most precise sports. An ice-going, stone-throwing robot just mastered it.
The Cool Physics of a Supersonic Baseball
For one thing, let's build a model of air drag and how it affects the ball differently when it's traveling faster and slower than...
Where Was the Battery at Tesla’s Battery Day?
Musk made some big promises at Tesla’s highly anticipated Battery Day. But a prototype never made an appearance, and it was unclear...
To Make Fairer AI, Physicists Peer Inside Its Black Box
After repurposing facial recognition and deepfake tech to study galaxies and the Higgs boson, physicists think they can help shape...
Does a Millipede Have a Penis? Well ... Define 'Penis'
From gonopods to pedipalps, nature has a lot of ways to get gametes where they need to go.
