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Right now, many are wondering: “How long are people going to be dying of Covid-19, and when can businesses reopen?” To answer those questions, scientists and policymakers have turned to a growing number of infectious disease forecast models. None of…
A new study from the Pew Research Center suggests many Americans had a poor understanding of the risks posed by the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic — and that the majority, some correctly and some incorrectly, felt…
In 2017, scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa spotted an enigmatic celestial body that turned out to be the first known interstellar object passing through the Solar System. Because of its unusual origin, it earned the name Oumuamua,…
Although there is scientific evidence that members of Homo neanderthalensis made art, buried their dead, and had complex technology, it is believed that they were intellectually inferior to modern humans. An ancient string discovered at an archaeological site in south-eastern…
Devastating wildfires in Australia, the coronavirus pandemic, a fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and now asteroids. It seems that humanity has really pissed off nature and the universe. NASA’s tracking system has detected two asteroids that will fly close…
New York remains the most affected state in the worst-hit country amid the global pandemic: while there are 2.07 million cases worldwide, the United States has registered almost 640,000 infected, with nearly one third of them (213,000) in the state…
