Scientists deliberately infected people with coronavirus. Here’s what happened
Researchers in the United Kingdom yesterday posted the results of a first-of-its-kind study in which healthy young volunteers were purposely infected with an early strain of the pandemic coronavirus. As hoped, none […]
Astronomers set up center to counter threat of satellite swarms
Three years ago, astronomers were reeling from the launch of the first 60 satellites of SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, which aims to provide broadband internet access worldwide. The satellites left bright […]
¹Elon Musk Says We Need to Live in Glass Domes Before We Can Terraform Mars
Earlier this week, SpaceX founder Elon Musk explained on Twitter that in order to colonize Mars, we would have to support “life in glass domes at first” before we “eventually, terraformed […]
Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants
Loss of habitat and poaching have made African forest elephants a critically endangered species. Yet the dense forests of sparsely populated Gabon in the Congo River Basin remain a “last stronghold” of […]
Ons Jabeur becomes first Arab tennis player — male or female — to break into the top 10 in singles
Ons Jabeur of Tunisia already was a trail blazer in her own right when she became the first Arab woman to win a WTA Tour title and advance to the […]