News

First Room-Temperature Superconductor Excites and Baffles Scientists

Scientists have created a mystery material that seems to conduct electricity without any resistance at temperatures of up to about…

5 years ago

Science Pinpoints Global Metal Deposit Locations

Copper, lead and zinc are essential for modern technology's electronics and batteries. Demand has skyrocketed, and mining companies are depleting…

5 years ago

How to Avoid COVID While Voting

Zeke Dunn of Brooklyn has worked at polling places in nearly every primary and general election since 2017. The 39-year-old…

5 years ago

Galileo and the Science Deniers

Four hundred years ago Galileo Galilei’s scientific findings were rejected because they didn’t fit the prevailing beliefs of the time.…

5 years ago

I Can’t Breathe: Asthma, Black Men and the Police

In late September, a New York Supreme Court judge ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of Eric Garner. In…

5 years ago

How to Get Through This Election

In August, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was interviewed on the New York Times podcast The Daily, where he was asked…

5 years ago

Play Helped Dogs Be Our Best Friends

All domestic dogs belong to a single species that descended from wolves—despite vast differences in size, appearance, behavior and temperament…

5 years ago

Natural Disasters May Push Global Finances to the Brink

Over the past two decades, 20 natural disasters made worse by climate change have caused damage to countries worth 10%…

5 years ago

Neandertal DNA May Be COVID Risk

The risk factors for COVID-19 are many: old age, obesity, heart conditions. But early genetic studies have identified another trait…

5 years ago

Why the World’s Biggest Dinosaurs Keep Getting Cut Down to Size

On August 9, 2017, paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City unveiled the largest animal…

5 years ago