Amazon’s answer to its grocery store woes: Skipping the checkout line

Best Buy offers exclusive access to PS5 stock, if you pay extra $200 a year

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) If you’re still searching for a PS5 and are a Best Buy customer, your ship may have just come in—that is, if you’re willing to spend an extra $200 a year for access. That’s because the big-box electronics retailer is locking stock of in-demand holiday items like Sony’s console behind membership […]

Only 2.1 million Americans have received their first dose of the COVID vaccine

President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines and predicted that “things will get worse before they get better” when it comes to the pandemic. “We need to be honest — the next few weeks and months are going to be very tough, very tough for our nation. […]

Microbiologists have cracked the case of Shedd Aquarium’s missing medicines

Enlarge / The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago partnered with microbiologists at Northwestern University to find out why chloroquine kept disappearing from the water in the quarantine habitat. (credit: lan Schein Photography / Getty Images) Founded in 1930, Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is not just a popular tourist attraction. Its staff also aids in worldwide conservation efforts […]