Science

“We certainly are not winning the battle against the coronavirus,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday. “The jurisdictions with the highest probability of the highest number of deaths include: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, the …

At his press conference Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered counties on the state’s coronavirus watch list to close school campuses this fall, at least to start the school year. The 32 counties on the list, which include Los Angeles and most of southern California, should switch to virtual instruction …

Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Geoff Duncan (R) on Friday encouraged all Georgia residents to wear a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic, days after Governor Brian Kemp (R) moved, preventing cities and local communities order residents to wear masks. “My call here is for everyone in Georgia, everyone in the country, …

A close-up of a piece of copper ore. Credit: Coldmoon Photoproject / Shutterstock They say it is better to have had something special and to have lost it than never to have had it. Who would have thought that the sentiment holds true for metal oxide catalysts? According to scientists …

Ancient light from the Big Bang has revealed a new accurate estimate for the age of the universe: 13.77 billion years, plus or minus 40 million years. The new estimate, based on data from a series of telescopes in the Chilean Atacama Desert, also influences one of the most important …