Month: June 2020

Growing up in the middle of nowhere, Marc Wiley said he had two choices for recreation: “Go fast and shoot stuff.” “And I’ve never been that interested in guns,” he said. As a result, Wiley, a black man who lives in northern Vermont, has followed NASCAR for most of his life. He used to write

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Ready or not, here comes a big week for reopening. France is lifting travel restrictions, New Jersey will allow outdoor dining, British shops plan on unlocking their doors and Greek museums will welcome visitors again. But as countries take steps to revive their economies, the risk of infections flaring up again is on everyone’s mind.

Bats have shouldered much of the blame in the quest for the origins of the novel coronavirus. In March, researchers published a study that found a 96.2% similarity between the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 and a virus found in a horseshoe bat from China’s Yunnan province. “Ninety-six percent is a different virus; it’s a bit

After the first wave of nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death turned violent, immigrants on US visas who support the Black Lives Matter movement’s protest faced a choice: to join the protests and jeopardize their legal status as immigrants or sit it out and save their future in the country. Jennifer Scheurle, a German immigrant

From its unique vantage point 4.3 billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of nearby stars — and the stars appear to be in different positions than where we see them from Earth. This is the first time this kind of “parallax effect” has been captured using a spacecraft. You can

Across the world, families who were on the brink of adopting a child have had their futures together postponed by the coronavirus pandemic. Adoption systems in many countries have been hit hard as social distancing restrictions meant the closure of courtrooms and clinics, while travel bans have made connecting with a surrogate or transferring a

Activists in Richmond, Virginia, projected the image of a pride flag and ‘BLM’ on a Confederate statue there Friday night in support of black LGBTQ+ rights. The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has been the site of many protests since the death of George Floyd and is the same one currently in legal

Laura Molles is so attuned to birds that she can tell where birds of some species are from just by listening to their song. She’s not a real-world Dr Doolittle. She’s an ecologist in Christchurch, New Zealand, who specializes in a little-known area of science: bird dialects. While some birds are born knowing how to