In total, more than 90,000 people received positive tests over that time period, and the number of people with positive tests increased annually, from about 13,000...
Six wooden skiffs set out from the town of Sunbury-on-Thames this month on a five-day mission with a single goal: to uphold one of Britain’s more...
It’s a hot day at a Santa Monica beach, and the children splashing each other aren’t the only youngsters in the water. Somewhere not far from...
Got any dead butterflies lying around? Consider sending them to the U.S. government. Officials with the United States Geological Survey, an agency that conducts research on...
A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that nearly half of the drinking water in the United States is contaminated with “forever chemicals,” the...
Why It Matters: Case counts have become less reliable. Even if people who are infected with the coronavirus never seek testing or treatment, they shed the...
Even by the extraordinary standards of contemporary political theater, Wednesday’s House Oversight subcommittee hearing on U.F.O.s stood out. There, in a somber chamber of the Rayburn...
A Number That Sums It Up: 3 to 4 months to Mars What if a spacecraft could get to Mars in half the time it currently...
Within every cancer are molecules that spur deadly, uncontrollable growth. What if scientists could hook those molecules to others that make cells self-destruct? Could the very...
Jon Lomberg’s most far-flung work of art is currently more than 14.8 billion miles away, in the cold no-man’s land between the sun and its closest...
