As Nazi U-boats plagued the open sea in late 1940, the U.S. government launched an emergency shipbuilding program. In the first year, the program ramped up production at a breathtaking rate of 20% per month, […]
NASA announced Thursday that 2020 tied 2016 as the hottest year in recorded history ― the latest in a constant stream of sobering reminders about the global climate change threat. The annual analysis found that Earth’s […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name […]
Scott Stringer, an early front-runner for New York City mayor, pledged to completely phase out fossil fuels, drive private utility companies out of the nation’s largest metropolis, and “electrify everything” in a near total embrace […]
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, scientists and public health experts have been puzzled by the role of asymptomatic spread. How many people have COVID-19, but no (or virtually no) symptoms? And to what extent do […]
