Science

Some Persiders of 2019, as seen from Macedonia. Spaceweather.com/Stojan Stojanovski It’s early August, and that means Perseid’s annual Meteeidouche is active and almost ready to peak. The Perseids are one of the best, brightest batches of shooting stars, and it feels like we could use them now more than ever …

Engineers at MIT have studied the simple act of shaving closely, observing how a razor blade can be damaged when it cuts human hair – a material that is 50 times softer than the blade itself. Credit: Mary Elizabeth Wagner Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it …

Commercially degradable commercial quality flip-flops. Credit: Stephen Mayfield, UC San Diego. As the most popular shoes in the world, flip-flops are responsible for a cumbersome percentage of plastic waste that ends up in landfills, on seawalls and in our oceans. Scientists at the University of California San Diego have spent …

Moncef Slaoui has not started making plans for his summer vacation next year. But he offers a high chance that all Americans will be able to do so in the not-too-distant future. In an interview with some sympathetic podcasters at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Slaoui offers an education to …

NEW YORK (AP) – Alcohol-based sanitizers may help spread the coronavirus, but drinking the products turned out to be fatal to four people in two states. Health officials reported this week that 15 adults were poisoned in May and June in Arizona and New Mexico after drinking sanitizer. In addition …