Category: Science
Cyberattacks on Health Care Are Rising — But Many Hospitals Aren’t Prepared
Last September, infectious disease physician Hana Akselrod was already deep in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic when another crisis took hold: Hackers deployed ransom-seeking…
How Extreme Heat Can Kill
As Earth’s climate heats up, extreme heat events will become more likely. According to a recent study, by 2100 extreme heat and humidity will affect…
What Scientists Know About Wildfire Smoke and Its Impact on Wild Animal Health
In the wake of the 2015 wildfires in Southeast Asia, researchers noticed something was off with the resident orangutans. Some of the large orange primates…
Something in The Eyes Reveals if You’re Looking at a Person Who Doesn’t Exist
We live in fake times. Reality is as prevalent as it ever was, of course, but it’s becoming harder to find all the time. Perhaps…
Human Noise Is Flooding the Seas’ Natural Soundscape
In a small boat off the lush coast of Bali, Indonesia in 2017, marine scientist Rob Williams lowered an underwater microphone called a hydrophone into…
Why It’s So Hard to Predict Where the Pandemic Is Headed Next
But it is also a landscape of shifting frustrations and fatigue, wild alternations between pessimism and optimism, such as last fall, when Americans returned to…
‘Neurograins’ Could be the Next Brain-Computer Interfaces
For people with brain and spinal injuries, these systems could eventually restore communication and movement, allowing them to live more independently. But currently, they’re not…
A Clever ‘Gene Silencing’ Injection Has Been Approved For Treating High Cholesterol
The United Kingdom’s NHS has very recently approved a new cholesterol-lowering jab which will be offered to 300,000 people over the next three years. The…
Physicists Just Accidentally Made a New Discovery About Black Holes
Given that our first direct detections confirming the existence of black holes only took place in this century, humanity can be forgiven for not knowing a…
A Disabled Parrot in New Zealand Has Taught Himself to Use Tools For Self-Care
There’s nothing better than a nice exfoliation to clean your parrot self after a long day. Apparently, that holds true even if you’re a parrot…