Science Archive
Archives for August 2022
The FDA just approved Covid-19 vaccines that have BA.5 in their crosshairs. Will people roll up their sleeves?
Hundreds are still dying of Covid-19 every day. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Pakistan has more than 7,000 glaciers. Climate change is melting them into floodwater.
How the flooding crisis became so awful.
Germany introduced a 9-Euro-Ticket to help ease the energy crisis. Now it’s trying to figure out what comes next.
Understanding the innards of exoplanets could help the search for alien life.
State regulators just passed a proposal to ban sales of gasoline vehicles by 2035.
Peloton is the new Tae Bo is the new Thighmaster. Why do we approach fitness as consumers?
Covid-19 budgets are shrinking. What’s the best way to spend what’s left?
Two tubas, a chicken, and a low-pitched alligator: The weird ways scientists imagine dinosaur voices.
Is there such a thing as a green supersonic jet?
Wildfires, crop shortages, and energy restrictions are putting pressure on governments, and people.
The river waters a lot of our food. What happens as it dries up?
A wave of magnetized particles from the sun will strike Earth over the next few days and light up the skies.
More water cuts are coming as the nation’s largest reservoirs continue to dry up in the worst drought in 1,200 years.