Science

A month after Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo issued her order directing companies to require customers to wear masks, signs are emerging that the new increase in coronavirus in the Houston area may begin to slow. The improvement is reflected in a number of recent trends: a plateau, then decline, …

Humans have turned the construction of spaces into an art form, but we are not the only species with such dazzling achievements. A particular genus of stingless bees from Southeast Asia and Australia really takes that idea to another level, creating spiral hives that rival the Guggenheim of New York. …

Adobe has hired Marc Levoy, the computer photography pioneer who led the development of innovative technologies found in Google’s Pixel smartphones. Levoy will now bring his expertise to help Adobe develop a “universal camera app.” Levoy became a professor of computer science at Stanford in 1990, focusing on computer graphics …

LONDON – Just over 60 years after it was declared “biologically dead”, England’s Thames River had been hailed as an environmental success. But while much of the effluents, chemicals, and heavy metals that used to pollute the river are gone, microplastics have taken their place. Mammals such as porpoises, seals, …

As criticism of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic escalates, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday asked state health officials to begin reporting the data from Coronavirus in a detailed and uniform way, instead of the disorganized hodgepodge in most states now …