President Donald Trump was almost as introspective as he can get during an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy this week at the White House. The interview included such forceful questions as “Do you love to Twitter?” “There are times when I love it,” Trump said with a smile. …

In the Mojave Desert, a translucent quartz rock keeps the soil moist, moss green, and reduces the intensity of sunlight. Nearby moss withers and turns black in the dry air and intense desert sun. The moss species is Syntrichia caninervis. Credit: Kirsten Fisher Living under a translucent rock can be …

Evidence continues to accumulate. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Sales of new single-family homes (based on signed contracts) increased 6.9% in June, compared to June last year, at a seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 776,000 homes, according to the Commerce Department this morning. It was a hair above …

… and welcome to another day of coverage of the US coronavirus outbreak – and, of course, its policy and everything else. The United States is now, according to Johns Hopkins University, in more than 4.1 million confirmed cases and more than 145,000 people dead. The economy is still crumbling …

Photo Credit: NASA / JPL / MSSS Of Popular Mechanics Some regions on the surface of Mars are covered in giant structures called Megaripples. Planetary scientists have long thought that these structures were stagnant. Now, thanks to images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, they have been shown to move. …