The US is approaching 5 million cases of coronavirus – and as experts have previously pointed out, the true number of infections could be many times higher. © John Moore / Getty Images AUSTIN, TEXAS – AUGUST 07: Medical staff train to receive Covid-129 patients at the Austin Convention Center …

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Satellite images have revealed 11 previously unknown imperial penguin colonies in Antarctica, increasing the number of known colonies of the imperial birds by 20 percent. The discoveries were made by distinguishing the distinctive reddish-brown guano …

Saturday night brought more of what it becomes commonplace for the beginning pitcher of the Mets’ rookie. Norm, Peterson. Cheers – the wrong kind – filled Citi Field for David Peterson’s home debut, and the left hinger was well worth it. Fifteen outs came quickly, allowing the bullpen to complete …

The Netflix original The Umbrella Academy is a refreshing recording about the superhero genre – absent from hypermasculinity, gender norms, and immortality of altruism. After all, there is a bunch of dysfunctional siblings trying to prevent an emerging apocalypse – while thinking and playing with the space-time continuum. They have …

Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years. New research shows that we may have ‘recycled’ a key region of the brain to help us understand the written word. In tests on rhesus macaque monkeys, scientists have shown …