Mongolians subsist on a dairy-heavy diet, even though most are lactose intolerant. (Matthäus Rest/) Lake Khövsgöl is about as far …
Start your morning with a delicious dark roast coffee
Wake up better. (John-Mark Smith via Unsplash/) French roast, Italian roast, and espresso roast are all popular names for coffees, …
Just how contagious is COVID-19? This chart puts it in perspective.
Not all epidemics are created equal. (DepositPhoto/) Scientists, medical professionals, and governments around the world are working to understand how …
VR headsets may finally look less ugly
HTC’s Proton headset looks like something you might wear snowboarding. (HTC/) It’s hard to look cool while wearing a VR …
This new device seems to pull electricity out of thin air
Illustration of a thin film of protein nanowires generating electricity from atmospheric humidity. (UMass Amherst/) An interdisciplinary team of scientists …
A distant cousin of jellyfish may survive without working mitochondria
In the pinkish muscle of some Pacific salmon lives a distant cousin of jellyfish that thrives without working mitochondria, the …
NASA icon Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101
An inspirational “Hidden Figure” and a key player in sending the first humans to the moon, mathematician Katherine Johnson died …
This fundamental constant of nature remains the same even near a black hole
Even on a black hole’s turf, an essential constant of nature holds steady. According to standard physics, the fine-structure constant, …
What NASA’s InSight lander has learned about Mars’ magnetism and quakes
Mars is not quite dead, geologically speaking. The surface of the Red Planet trembles with Marsquakes, scientists report, one of …
U.S. drug deaths dipped in 2018, but cocaine and meth overdoses rose
The stories that Judith Feinberg hears from people with substance use disorder are riddled with loss: of jobs, opportunity, security, …