Science

These days, hearing someone cough or sneeze in public can cause instant anxiety when they’re around, especially indoors. But how often do you think of the other main route for COVID-19: the simple act of talking to someone else? Drops dropped during speech are believed to be the key transmission …

David Thomas is not your normal academic. President of one of the nation’s most prized black universities, Thomas once played center and linebacker on the soccer field and, as a foreign exchange student, competed abroad in basketball. He realizes the cultural importance of sports and understands his place in the …

Chiral (mirror) molecules give relaxing ferroelectrics their incredible properties. Credit: MRI, Penn State A fundamental new understanding of the ferroelectric behavior of polymeric relaxants could lead to advancements in flexible electronics, actuators and transducers, energy storage, piezoelectric sensors, and electrocaloric cooling, according to a team of researchers at Penn State …

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, perched on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, takes off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, taking two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on May 30. SpaceX SpaceX sent a military GPS satellite into space Tuesday afternoon for the US Space Force …