H5N1 bird flu is getting better at spreading between mammals but does not yet spread as easily as seasonal flu, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study suggests. H5N1 has been detected in at least 46 people in the U.S. this year, causing only mild illnesses so far. The CDC maintains that the […]
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Vice President Kamala Harris stand in the House of Representatives ahead of US President Joe Biden’s third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 07 March 2024. SHAWN THEW/Pool via REUTERS Shawn Thew | Via Reuters […]
Astronomers may have found tantalizing evidence that dark energy — the mysterious energy driving the accelerating expansion of our universe — could be connected with black holes. Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of our universe, and is thought to have emerged in the aftermath of the Big Bang13.8 billion years ago, to drive the […]
Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump government canceled a major federal contract with Amazon Web Services, a decision likely influenced by the former president’s view of the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos. It would not be hard for policymakers […]
Ancient buildings and landscape modifications—including public plazas, agricultural terraces, and field walls—blanket uplands. Credit: Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the famous sites of Chichén Itzá or Tikal. “For the longest time, our sample […]
Even though the invention of the wheel around 6,000 years ago revolutionized everything from transportation to pottery making, its exact origins are still a mystery to archaeologists. But a new study using techniques from structural mechanics suggests that Eastern European copper miners may have been the driving force behind three major innovations in wheel technology […]
Researchers have found that a hypothetical form of dark energy may lead to a grim fate for the universe: a “long freeze” where everything just…slows down. In this scenario, the universe would expand to a finite size, but everything would grow so cold that all activity would essentially cease. Dark energy is the mysterious force […]
Donald Trump appeared on Fox News this morning, where, during a characteristically bizarre interview, he suggested Abraham Lincoln could have avoided the Civil War by cutting a deal with the South—which, as a reminder, wanted slavery to remain legal. Asked by a 10-year-old who his favorite president was when he was “little,” Trump began by […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin suggested on Wednesday that many European countries were starting to face difficulties when it came to mobilising their military-industrial industries to help Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a question about the French and German arms industries, but he did not name any European countries himself or say […]
Former President Bill Clinton said in a speech Monday that Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s death would not have happened if the alleged killer, an illegal immigrant, was properly vetted. While campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in the Peach State, Clinton accused her rival, former President Donald Trump, of tanking negotiations over a bipartisan […]
