The summer sun has been anything but fun for many this year. Brutal temperatures torched records across the U.S. as they peaked globally in July. Relentless heat waves baked the Southwest and rolled into the Midwest and South, occasionally enveloping other regions that are completely unaccustomed to such extremes. Exposure to this kind of heat… Continue reading Six Ways to Stay Safe Outdoors in Extreme Heat
Hiroshima’s Anniversary Marks an Injustice Done to Blast Survivors
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. used an atomic bomb for the first time in history, against the city of Hiroshima. The U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki three days later. Experts estimate that the two bombs instantly killed more than 100,000 people. The movie Oppenheimer has rightly received critical acclaim as a masterful… Continue reading Hiroshima’s Anniversary Marks an Injustice Done to Blast Survivors
How Simple Math Moves the Needle
Imagine you’re rolling down the street in a driverless car when you see a problem ahead. An Amazon delivery driver got their van halfway past a double-parked UPS truck before realizing they couldn’t make it through. Now they’re stuck. And so are you. The street is too narrow to pull off a U-ey, so your… Continue reading How Simple Math Moves the Needle
Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023
The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their pioneering work in the development of mRNA vaccine technology, which made possible a timely vaccine response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus are credited with helping to curb the spread of… Continue reading Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023
Airship Mystery of 1896 and 1897 (Mystery Airships, Phantom Airships, Ghost Airships, UFOs)
Podcast: Download MYS279: In the late 1890s, there was a wave of sightings over the US of mysterious airships displaying unusual flight characteristics. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss these unusual airships and the theories that they were aliens, hoaxes, or maybe something else. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email… Continue reading Airship Mystery of 1896 and 1897 (Mystery Airships, Phantom Airships, Ghost Airships, UFOs)
Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize
To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s unimaginably fleet-footed particles, you need to produce unimaginably brief flashes of light. Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz have shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in developing the ability to illuminate reality on almost inconceivably brief timescales. Between the 1980s and… Continue reading Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize
DC’s Revolving Door Is Swinging Briskly for the Eco-Green Eyeshade People
Washington’s revolving door is getting a fresh green paint job: Federal architects of a controversial new rule requiring businesses to measure their carbon footprints throughout their supply chains have joined a start-up company poised to reap millions by performing those calculations. The federal revolving door lately swings from the SEC … U.S. Government/Wikimedia At least… Continue reading DC’s Revolving Door Is Swinging Briskly for the Eco-Green Eyeshade People
Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles
Imagine a nanocrystal so minuscule that it behaves like an atom. Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a category of such minute marvels, now known as quantum dots, and for developing a precise method of synthesizing them. Quantum dots are… Continue reading Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles
Red Meat Allergy Caused by Tick Bite Is Spreading—And Nearly Half of Doctors Don’t Know about It
Ticks are annoying creatures. These nasty, bloodsucking parasites glom on to you when you least suspect it. And if they’re not removed in time, they can transmit a startling range of pretty horrible diseases. The bite of the lone star tick, found in the U.S. South, Midwest and mid-Atlantic, can trigger a bizarre and sometimes… Continue reading Red Meat Allergy Caused by Tick Bite Is Spreading—And Nearly Half of Doctors Don’t Know about It
Meet the Activist Wife Who Networks the Anti-MAGA White House While Her Prosecutor Husband Puts January Sixers in Jail
Shown, Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and his wife, Fatima Goss Graves. By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigationsTuesday, October 3, 2023 Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is the public face of the government’s unprecedented effort to identify, arrest, and prosecute those connected to the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the Capitol. But… Continue reading Meet the Activist Wife Who Networks the Anti-MAGA White House While Her Prosecutor Husband Puts January Sixers in Jail