AN ASTEROID is heading for Earth at an estimated 21,300mph — the night before the hotly contested US presidential election.
The space rock, known as 2018VP1, has a one in 240 chance of striking on November 2, according to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
With an estimated diameter of 2 meters (6.5...
At least half of voters prefer former Vice President Joe Biden’s approach to health care over President Donald Trump’s, suggesting voter concern about lowering costs and managing the pandemic could sway the outcome of this election, a new poll shows.
The findings, from KFF’s monthly tracking poll, signal that voters...
A 25-year-old man in Nevada contracted COVID-19 twice, the first such recorded case in the United States, researchers said.
The patient in question first tested positive for the illness in April, the researchers found in their case study on Monday in the Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal. After recovering, he...
The carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) captures and digests small animals and absorbs nutrients with its characteristic insectivorous leaves. Six sensory hairs on the inner surface of each leaf sense a visiting prey and cause the trap to close. A single contact event with a sensory hair is...
Videos containing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation will be removed from YouTube, the platform announced today. Content about a vaccine that contradicts information from health experts or the World Health Organization won’t be permitted.
“A COVID-19 vaccine may be imminent, therefore we’re ensuring we have the right policies in place to be...
For decades, physicists have dreamed of discovering a material that could effortlessly convey electricity at everyday temperatures, a feat that would save gargantuan amounts of energy and revolutionize modern technology.
Writing in the journal Nature, a team of researchers announced on Wednesday that they have done just that. They have...
A new study explores how humans seem to be evolving in a very unexpected way — namely, by having a third artery in some of our forearms.
In an article published by the Journal of Anatomy, scientists from the University of Adelaide in Australia and Flinders University describe how human...
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned America’s governors on Tuesday that “small household gatherings” have been proved to spread the novel coronavirus, a fact that he urged the state executives to keep in mind as their citizens prepare for Thanksgiving.
“In the public square,...
