Category: Science
Vaccine Mandates Work—but Only If They’re Done Right
The point is, formal FDA approval wasn’t necessary for a mandate, but it’s turning out to be sufficient. Businesses, schools, and local governments that wanted…
Men And Women Had Different Diets in This Ancient Roman Town Destroyed by a Volcano
The bones of victims of the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius in the nearby town of Herculaneum have revealed fascinating differences in the diets of…
A Glimpse Inside a Termite’s Gut and More Award-Winning Footage of the Microscopic World
A whole world that we never see exists under the lens of a microscope. For the past 11 years, talented individuals have captured microscopic life…
Police Raid in Brazil Saves The Most Detailed Pterosaur Fossil Discovered to Date
A police raid in Brazil has saved our scientific knowledge of an incredibly well-preserved flying lizard that sported a ridiculously large head crest. The police…
How Often Should You Exercise to Get in Shape, According to Science?
Elite athletes – like Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who won gold for the men’s 1,500 meter race at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics – train almost ten to…
This Fast Radio Burst Repeats in a Strict Pattern, And We Still Can’t Figure Out Why
After taking new radio observations, astronomers have ruled out a leading explanation for the cyclic nature of a particularly curious repeating space signal. The signal…
We Could Discover Alien Life on This New Class of ‘Hycean’ Exoplanets, Study Says
When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far, we know only one planet…
7,200-Year-Old Human DNA With Unique Denisovan Ancestry Has Been Found in Indonesia
The skeleton of an ancient woman, discovered in an Indonesian cave in 2015, appears to have ancestry unlike any other human found to date. Her…
Here’s The Real Meaning of ‘Comirnaty’, The Strange Name Pfizer Gave Their Vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine got full Food and Drug Administration approval on Monday – and the agency also approved the vaccine’s official name, Comirnaty, pronounced koe-mir-na-tee. Comirnaty…
Things May Be Brewing at Hawaii’s Kīlauea
For much of the first half of 2021, a lava lake sat perched within Kīlauea’s summit Halema’uma’u crater. Since May, the Hawaiian volcano has mostly…