Month: May 2020

Experts, medical professionals — even Nobel Prize winners — are urging governors in an open letter to mandate that anyone in public or at work wear masks and face coverings to prevent spreading Covid-19. A recently published, peer-reviewed study is recommending that all governments mandate wearing face masks and face coverings in public. The coverings

Villagers living up a remote 800-meter (2,624-foot) clifftop in southwest China that became famous for the precarious ladders connecting it to the world have been moved to a new urban housing estate. Atule’er, a 200-year-old village in Sichuan province, made headlines around the world when photographs emerged in 2016 of schoolchildren descending the cliff on

Stars may appear bright to us on Earth, but peering inside their hearts is a little more elusive. Star data from NASA’s planet-hunting TESS mission has helped an international team of scientists detect patterns in 60 pulsating stars. This data revealed the internal structures of the stars, which could aid in the understanding of what’s

It’s a boy! Nelson, a healthy baby Asian elephant, was born at the Houston Zoo earlier this week, surviving an emergency surgery after his mom experienced complications during the labor. Immediately after the baby elephant came into the world, he began hemorrhaging from his umbilicus. Zoo staff said they realized he had torn a vessel

The Israeli government knew to expect trouble on Tuesday night. It was Lag Ba-Omer, a Jewish holiday traditionally celebrated in Israel with mass gatherings around roaring bonfires. For the devout ultra-Orthodox community, it is an occasion for making a pilgrimage to Mt. Meron in the country’s north, where the second-century Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is