Enlarge / A call for radical empathy: In her 2021 book, Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction , Maia Szalavitz argues for adopting the controversial practice of harm reduction when treating addiction. (credit: iStock / Getty Image) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that […]
Enlarge / Abraham Lincoln’s pardon for Patrick Murphy, a Civil War soldier in the Union Army who was court-martialed for desertion. (credit: National Archives) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting […]
Enlarge / Away it goes. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD — Today, the James Webb Space Telescope started its journey to a location over a million kilometers from Earth, where it will start its science mission in roughly six months. “This is a day for the ages, ” said Ken Sembach, director of the […]
Enlarge / Most of what you see here will be unfolded in the weeks to months after launch. (credit: Northrop Grumman ) There have been years of delays in construction and a few late slips in the launch schedule , with the particular latest being a short delay due to bad weather at the South […]
Investigators in Boulder, Colorado are still actively searching for the killer of JonBenét Ramsey , and as the 25th anniversary associated with her shocking and tragic death comes up this week, they are sharing new updates on the infamous case. According to new info released by police in the city of Boulder, investigators are actively […]
Enlarge / When the California aqueducts can’t carry enough water, many areas of the state turn to groundwater. (credit: Steve Proehl) Over a third of American vegetables are grown in California, largely in the state’s Central Valley. The region also produces two-thirds of the nation’s fruits and nuts. These crops—and the many Americans who produce […]
Enlarge / Illustration of antibodies (red and blue) responding to an infection with Covid-19 (purple). (credit: Getty Images ) A lower share of people infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant are likely to require hospital treatment compared with cases of the Delta strain, according to healthcare data from South Africa, Denmark, and the UK. The […]
Enlarge COVID-19 patients as young as 12 can now be treated with Paxlovid, an antiviral pill developed by Pfizer , after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization on Wednesday. “Today’s authorization introduces the first treatment for COVID-19 that is in the form of a pill that is taken orally—a major step […]
Enlarge / Rebuilding the lower jaw of the Gray mastodon. (credit: ETSU Gray Fossil Site & Museum) Something has been discovered in Tennessee—something that only exists within one museum. It’s something enormous, slightly puzzling, and possibly the first of its kind discovered. Five years after its excavation, it remains incomplete. The mastodon skeleton slowly taking […]
Enlarge / Rapid at-home COVID-19 test kits. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) In an address to the nation today, President Joe Biden outlined his administration’s plans to battle the omicron variant. The federal government plans to purchase 500 million rapid COVID-19 test kits for home use, set up new testing sites, and mobilize 1, 000 […]