Winter and the holidays can be hard even in typical years: short days, cold winds, and family stress, to name a few. But the ongoing…
Mountain gorillas are distancing, too — from humans
There are around 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild, and about 460 of them live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. In the…
I was always terrified of wasting time. A cancer diagnosis made me reconsider.
The room didn’t spin like they say it does. My life didn’t flash before my eyes. I had no difficulty understanding the verdict: It was…
Hospital ICUs are filling up. It’s even worse than it sounds.
As of mid-December, hospitals on average had just 22 percent of their intensive care unit (ICU) beds available across the country, and many were completely…
How we can encourage people to wear masks — for others’ sake
Governors, mayors, and public health officials are sounding the alarm about rising levels of Covid-19 across every part of the country. The disease is surging,…
The worst idea of 2020
It’s year-end-list season. Usually, the Vox science team has some fun and compiles a year-end list of bad ideas in health and science that ought…
The 4 major unknowns of how vaccines will affect the Covid-19 pandemic
Two highly effective Covid-19 vaccines are now being administered across the United States, and more are in the pipeline. Almost 2 million people have already…
In 2020, scientists documented hundreds of new species. Here are a few.
It’s the year 2020, and scientists are still discovering new species of life on Earth. No one knows exactly how many types of life are…
History for Ardscoil Rís as they take a first colleges title back to Limerick
Updated Thu 8:10 PM Ardscoil Rís 1-17 St Kieran’s College 0-15 Robert Cribbin reports from Croke Park ARDSCOIL RÍS OF Limerick captured their first ever…
Big electric trucks and buses are coming. Here’s how to speed up the transition.
There’s a growing consensus in the climate change community that the key to transitioning the US economy from fossil fuels is to electrify everything —…