The New Intimacy, Brought to You by Covid-19
More than a century ago, the British writer E. M. Forster published a parable about the solitary endgame of technological progress. In his story, “The…
Cities in Poorer Countries Are at Risk as Covid-19 Spreads
From the 2017 plague in Madagascar to cholera in Haiti, recent infectious disease outbreaks have been centered in cities. The SARS virus was especially virulent…
An Onslaught of Crises Has Created a Modern Paradox
If you’re one of the lucky modern humans, you don’t lack food or water, you’ve got access to primo health care, and you don’t have…
Astronomers Just Narrowed Down The Source of Those Powerful Radio Signals From Space
Strange, powerful signals from deep space called fast radio bursts are slippery little suckers. Most of them just flash once, a mysterious huge spike in…
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was pure gibberish,” he…
Scientists Find a Way to Infect Mice With Coronavirus. Here’s Why That’s So Important
With COVID-19 cases continuing to rise around the world, scientists are doing everything they can to discover more about the virus that causes it –…
The Sun Just Spat Out Its Biggest Flare Since 2017
The Sun has been pretty quiet lately. Over the last few years, its flare activity has been relatively weak and infrequent… but it may be…
Strange, ‘Never-Before-Seen’ Asteroid Turns Out to Be Something Much More Common
Still very weird. Source
SpaceX Has Now Safely Delivered Astronauts to The Space Station
We needed this today. Source
First-of-Its-Kind Study Hints at How Psilocybin Works in The Brain to Dissolve Ego
Self? What self. Source