Technology
California Wildfires Can Create Their Own Terrifying Weather
Sparked by freak thunderstorms, the blazes changed wind patterns and could potentially lead to fire tornadoes and pyrocumulonimbus...
This Team Made a $500 Ventilator—but How Will It Be Used?
Fears of a ventilator shortage inspired doctors and engineers to improvise new designs. Inside the race to build a cheap, reliable...
97,000 People Got Convalescent Plasma. Who Knows If It...
A treatment made from the blood of recovered Covid-19 patients seemed promising in March. Today … well, it’s still just promising.
This Team Made a $500 Ventilator—but It May Never Be Used
Fears of a ventilator shortage inspired doctors and engineers to improvise new designs. Inside the race to build a cheap, reliable...
California's Wildfire and Covid-19 Disasters Just Collided
Rare thunderstorms have peppered the California landscape with conflagrations, pouring smoke into the Bay Area—all as the state struggles...
Ever Seen Inside a Mummified Cat? Well Now You Have
Here's how scientists used a fancy microCT scanner to peer inside the remains of a cat, bird, and snake from ancient Egypt.
New Data on How Many Kids Got That Covid Mystery Illness
A few young patients also develop strange inflammatory symptoms. A CDC report sheds light on how widespread this syndrome is, and...
A New Study Suggests a Possible Disease Vector: Germy Dust
Since the pandemic’s beginning, scientists have argued over how respiratory viruses can spread. Now an experiment with guinea pigs...
Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic?
Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn't even...
This Cobalt-Free Battery Is Good for the Planet—and It...
Reducing the cobalt content in lithium-ion batteries is good for the environment, human rights, and maybe even the performance of...
