This Squishy 3D-Printed Human Heart Feels Like the Real Thing
In the intro to the HBO sci-fi series Westworld, a 3D printer churns out humanoid robots, delicately assembling the incredible complexities of the human form so that those robots...
The Physics of Materials at Minus 80 Degrees Celsius
OK, you have your rubber band (hopefully). Take it and stretch it with your hands, and keep it stretched. Now touch the stretched rubber band to your lip (which is...
Experts’ advice on shopping during a higher-risk Black Friday
Black Friday looks totally different thanks to the...
Larry Brilliant Says We’ll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell
Do we need to do a deep cleaning of the White House?Are you asking that since the White House was ground zero for a disease-ridden outbreak, does it have to...
How NASA Finds the Mass of the Dirt Grabbed From an Asteroid
It's important to realize that the two sticks have the same mass, but different moments of inertia. The moment of inertia depends not just on the total mass, but where...
Meet the 4 astronauts SpaceX launched on NASA’s longest human mission
SpaceX launched its first operational human mission for...
The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
The same week the mania for the drug took hold in Silicon Valley, Larry Ellison, the chair of Oracle and the fifth-richest person on earth, started talking with Donald Trump....
Why It’s a Big Deal If the First Covid Vaccine Is ‘Genetic’
On Monday morning, when representatives from the drug company Pfizer said that its Covid-19 vaccine appears to be more than 90 percent effective, stocks soared, White House officials rushed...
Jared, Ivanka move kids to new school after parents’ COVID complaints
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children...
Is It Better to Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow Naturally?
This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Susan Cook-Patton was doing a postdoc in forest restoration at the Smithsonian Environmental...
