Science

Jessica King’s absent ballot application was never received. She tried to vote early at her polling station near her home in Albany, Georgia – but walked away when the public made social distance impossible. Finally, thanks to an early election day alarm and a nearly hour-long wait, King, 27, was …

TThree months ago, the Republican governor of Missouri refused to wear a mask in a store because he said he would not let the government tell him what to do. Mike Parson visited a hardware store to revamp it after he lifted Missouri’s coronavirus lockdown over the objections of health …

DARPA held the second trial in January this year and pitted the participants’ greatly improved algorithms against AI opponents developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Both trials were personally hosted by the APL. The third trial will also be streamed from the APL, with eight teams flying …

The popular Discovery Channel Shark Week series has officially launched. With more than 20 hours of programming sharks this week, here’s an example of where you can sink your teeth into: “Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach Off” (8 pm ET): Using decoys, drones and underwater cameras, three researchers will return to …

NASA is joining the ever-growing list of organizations and companies that are re-examining their naming system, removing names that are “unfathomable” and “harmful” from their vocabulary. Aunt Jemima, The Chicks, Mrs. A, Mrs. Butterworth’s, de Washington Football Team – and now, celestial objects – have all undergone a rebrand. “Eskimo …