The numbers: New claims for traditional unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 1.48 million, but remain stubbornly high three months after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, signaling that an incipient economic recovery is likely to be uneven. Initial jobless claims, a rough measure of layoffs, declined in the …

Image copyright Maxar Technologies / Reuters Screenshot New satellite images show the area near Patrol Point 14 where a clash between Indian and Chinese forces took place on June 15. China has built new structures near the site of a Himalayan border clash that left 20 Indian soldiers dead earlier …

New York mandates quarantine for travelers to the state. Spencer Platt / Getty Images New York state announced Wednesday that it will begin requiring travelers from eight states where the number of coronavirus cases will increase to quarantine for 14 days. The new measure highlights New York visitors and residents …

After four consecutive days of record hospitalizations for the new coronavirus, Riverside County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations decreased slightly, as the county reported 474 more confirmed cases in the update released Wednesday, June 24 on the public health website. County. The county has 14,905 cases, an increase of about 3% from the …

A 50-year theoretical process to extract energy from a spinning black hole finally has experimental verification. Using an analogue of the required components, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism for extracting some of that rotational energy, if we could ever develop the means. That …