Technology
Some Nursing Homes Escaped Covid-19—Here's What They Did...
As states start to reopen, senior care facilities must balance the needs of residents against the potential for more deadly Covid-19...
Covid-19 Creates Long, Anxious Waits for Fertility Treatments
As fertility clinics gradually reopen, patients and doctors must weigh the risks of seeking pregnancy during a pandemic—or waiting...
To Beat Covid-19, You Have to Know How A Virus Moves
As public spaces reopen, scientists are racing to understand the mysterious and turbulent way the disease spreads through air—from...
Weather Delays the SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch
The historic launch planned for Wednesday gets pushed back due to stormy conditions, but the launch window remains open. SpaceX and...
Whoooaaa Duuuuude: Why We Stretch Words in Tweets and Texts
Notice you've been elongating your words lately? You're actually loading them with a whooooole lot of meaning.
3 Ways Scientists Think We Could De-Germ a Covid-19 World
Researchers want to know if we can create an antiviral infrastructure that would protect humans from transmission. Here are a few...
Trump’s New Space Force Missile Might Be Too ‘Super-Duper’
To go that fast, it would need a ridiculous amount of fuel—and even then, it might never come back down.
Virgin Orbit’s Air-Launched Rocket Fails Its First Test
LauncherOne failed a few seconds into its first flight. But that’s OK—the only two US rocket startups that made it to orbit flubbed...
Virgin Orbit’s Air-Launched Rocket Failed Its First Test
LauncherOne failed a few seconds into its first flight. But that’s OK—the only two US rocket startups that made it to orbit failed...
This Citizen Science Gig Pays People to Match Space Photos
Astronomers at the Hubble Image Similarity Project are employing their out-of-work neighbors to help them train a neural net to recognize...
