Artist depiction of a Dyson sphere. Credit: Kevin McGill Searching for Dyson spheres, rings or swarms remains a preoccupation of many astronomers. If there are any out there, they will eventually be found, and the person or research team to do so will go down in history for making one …
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David Rising And Jim Gomez, The Associated Press Published Tuesday, May 10, 2022 8:08AM EDT MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s apparent landslide victory in the Philippine presidential election is giving rise to immediate concerns about a further erosion of democracy in the region, and could complicate American efforts …
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Placeholder while article actions load On March 8, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, …
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The Guelph Humane Society is reaching out to the community for more information about an abandoned cat found in a carrier submerged in a flooded ditch in the city’s east end. In a news release, the agency said someone who just happened to be passing by found the buff-coloured tabby …
Read More »How do you like to pay? Do you prefer to tap, wave, insert, single-click or double-click – or are you a hold out for hard cash? If it’s the latter, you’re fast becoming the exception. Between our growing enthusiasm for online shopping, the ease and speed with which we can …
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Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which continues to play a key role in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, represents one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time. The widespread effectiveness of mRNA-based vaccines has attracted considerable attention to the prospect of mRNA technology serving as a platform that can …
Read More »In her classic memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Viv Albertine recounts not only the time she spent as a punk during the 1970s in her pioneering band the Slits, but also documents her life after the band had ended. This is unusual. Most music books …
Read More »We used to eat so many different varieties of corn Maize or corn is now grown in greater volume than any crop in history, and is still the staple food for about 1.2 billion people in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. A farmer in spreads recently harvested maize …
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Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hopkin: When you stop to think about it, it’s not all that easy to speak. First you have to think of something to say. Then your brain has to tell your mouth to say it. Interruptions anywhere along this …
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Where the gay rights movement emphasized biological realities (“born this way,” etc.) and bourgeois aspirations (to monogamy and marriage), today’s gender-identity advocates promote “wild claims” about the social-constructedness of sex differences and dismiss any contravening evidence as “violence.” This risks backlash, it endangers all the accommodations to transgender rights that …
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