COVID-19 has claimed the lives of about 675,000 people in the United States, according to the CDC. This outbreak has surpassed the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of mortality, making it the deadliest in recent American history. Vaccines are our most powerful weapon in the fight against the new coronavirus. In the United States, three…
When an EV startup is founded by sports car fans who can also read a financial sheet, you get the all-electric, all-wheel-drive Rivian R1T pickup truck. Rivian was founded in 2008 to produce a performance coupe, as it is what CEO RJ Scaringe and director of vehicle dynamics Max Koff desired. Consumers, on the other…
Few things in life attract more unsolicited advice than how to care for one’s children. However, advice on what to eat, when to eat it, and how much to eat usually takes the cake. As a result, it’s normal if you’re concerned about nutrition and wellness as a parent or caretaker. While there is unlikely…
Imagine going to the store, returning home with three full bags of groceries. You pause before entering your house and toss one of the bags into a garbage can, which is then carted away to a landfill. What a waste of time. That is precisely what we are doing today as a group. Around the…
COVID mortality continues to rise across the United States, mainly among unvaccinated populations, prompting renewed interest in newly developed treatments. Monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy is one of the most successful treatments available. Patients are given high doses of antibodies specifically tailored to attack SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, as part of this treatment. These…
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Apple is collaborating with UCLA to create new technology that employs face recognition and other behavioral tracking technologies to detect sadness in iPhone users. Apple appears to be contemplating a world where your phone could tell you that your mood has been dismal by using information that…
According to new data, Americans are becoming more accepting of people of all colors, nationalities, and sexual orientations. Nonetheless, discrimination against persons from marginalized groups continues at alarmingly high levels. Two explanations have been presented by scientists to explain this seeming contradiction. According to the distributed discrimination theory, most people—even those with strong egalitarian beliefs—engage…
The drop stones found in tropical rocks were one of the first signs that something unusual had occurred on Earth. Drop stones are pebbles that land on the seafloor with enough power to distort the sediment. However, no drop stones should have been present in these rocks. The most common source is glaciers; ice sheet…
If substantial global warming continues, the North Atlantic jet stream, a fast-moving air current that circles the Northern Hemisphere, may travel northward in the next decades. Changes in rainfall patterns in the midlatitudes, as well as a rise in droughts, heat waves, floods, and other extreme weather events across Europe and the eastern United States,…
Researchers have been progressively gaining fresh and significant insights regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the body and brain while the epidemic has been in the rearview mirror for more than 18 months. These discoveries have raised worries about the coronavirus’s long-term effects on biological processes such as aging. My previous study as a cognitive…