Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed a new tuna-inspired robot that can flap its tail as quickly as actual tuna (seven times per second) and swim at speeds of up to 1.5 mph, or two body lengths per second. The team behind this invention explains how they created this tuna-like robot, which can…
Snakes are cunning creatures. They’ve slithered their way into almost every corner of the globe in their 150 million-odd years on our planet. Saint Patrick, on the other hand, can’t take credit for eradicating our scaly companions from any of them. Ireland, like almost every other country without snakes, never had them to begin with.…
Stanton Glantz is one of the few scientists who has battled smoking as fiercely as he has. Glantz led campaigns to ban smoking in public places, exposed secret tobacco industry documents, and wrote or co-wrote five books and nearly 400 papers, the majority of which documented the harm caused by tobacco. Glantz was a professor…
The earth is warming at an unprecedented rate in the last 2,000 years as a result of modern society’s continuous reliance on fossil fuels. and its consequences are already being felt as record droughts, wildfires, and floods wreak havoc on communities around the world. according to a groundbreaking United Nations assessment on the state of…
Vaccinated Americans will be permitted to go to Canada again, but the US will keep its side of the border closed as Delta continues to spread, particularly in the South. Meanwhile, it’s becoming clear that kids can develop lengthy COVID, and some Americans are self-medicating with illicit booster doses. Here’s what’s new in COVID this…
I went for a run on June 27 as the rest of the Pacific Northwest huddled indoors due to record-breaking heat. I’m used to jogging in the heat as a former cross-country runner: I hit the trails around 7:00 a.m. and chose a more shady path The weather was nice when I left the home,…
Despite our near-constant anxiety about restlessness, Americans today sleep about the same amount as they did 50 years ago. But it doesn’t mean we’re getting enough shut-eye. According to a 2020 poll by the National Sleep Foundation, over one-third of US citizens aren’t getting the seven or more hours of sleep each day suggested by…
General Motors is the automotive industry’s granddaddy. The Detroit-based company is credited with creating America’s first muscle vehicle in 1949, and it has been producing hits for over 70 years. Although today’s muscle vehicles may differ from their predecessors in appearance, the concept remains the same: cram a massive V8 engine under the hood and…
Kids, their parents, and coaches have all accepted the concept that practice makes perfect when it comes to sports. Around a third of school-aged athletes, today specialize in a single sport. Participating in strenuous, year-round training regimens, often on numerous teams, according to some estimates. They’re also refining their concentration at a quite young age.…
If time travelers could travel back to the early Earth, say three billion years before the present, they should bring life support with them. They’d swiftly suffocate because there was so little oxygen on the globe at the time. Without breathing oxygen, the time explorers would perish before witnessing another feature of early Earth: the…