Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Author: Molly Bergen
07/14/2022
Opinion: A 2024 Presidential Candidate Who Meets the Moment
I’d like you to consider the possibility that the political changes that have rocked this country over the past six years will be nothing compared with the changes that will rock it over the next six.
07/14/2022
Scientists have picked up a radio signal ‘heartbeat’ billions of light-years away
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have picked up repetitive radio signals from a galaxy billions of light-years from Earth.
07/07/2022
The Magic of a Little Danger
You wouldn’t believe it. It’s like a wonderful nightmare.” This is how Bill Gorton, the hard-drinking veteran in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, describes the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
07/07/2022
A Whale Feeding Frenzy in Antarctica Signals a Conservation Success
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, fin whales in the Southern Ocean have rebounded and returned to their historic feeding grounds, according to a new survey.
07/06/2022
FDA Will Help Overseas Baby-Formula Makers Keep Selling in U.S. Beyond Shortages
Plans in development include providing technical assistance to foreign companies seeking to enter U.S. market.
07/05/2022
This platform spotlights poverty reporting in the U.S.
From photographers who captured images of displaced farm families and migrant workers during the Great Depression – like Dorothea Lange’s photo "Migrant Mother" – to studies such as Michael Harrington's book "The Other America," which analyzed poverty in the U.S. during the 60s, reporting on extreme poverty and class was once a hallmark of U.S. journalism.
07/06/2022
Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Provides a Preview
We are less than one week away from the release of the first full-color images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but how does the observatory find and lock onto its targets?
07/08/2022
Opinion: Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?
A “replication crisis” in mathematics raises questions about the purpose of knowledge.
07/08/2022
Here’s what’s in Biden’s executive order on abortion rights
President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to reproductive health services in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.
07/08/2022
California will make its own insulin to fight drug’s high prices, Newsom says
California will start making its own affordable insulin as part of an effort to combat high drug prices for a lifesaving medication that has been made inaccessible for some Americans living with diabetes, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday.
07/08/2022
Officially extinct butterfly ‘making a comeback’ in UK
Large tortoiseshells breeding at Knepp, Sussex, after being officially extinct in Britain for half a century.
07/07/2022