The big question surrounding 15-year-old Kamila Valieva is whether or not she’ll be allowed to skate in the Olympic women’s individual event. The International Testing Agency (ITA) said that Valieva, who helped the Russian women win the MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced his support for a bill that would prohibit the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the state’s primary schools. Asked by reporters at a Miami event Monday, he said it was “entirely MORE
A Texas teacher was placed on administrative leave amid an investigation after she was caught in a viral social media video stating that her junior high school students “utter morons.” In the audio of the video MORE
A profanity laced class introduction on video from a Michigan professor went viral when he called his students “vectors of disease.” Barry Mehler, a Ferris State University professor, opened the video for the class introduction MORE
The U.S. government hasn’t comprehensively studied UFOs in decades — but not all ufologists are excited about a new Pentagon investigative office. The U.S. government is finally getting back into the UFO business. And depending on MORE
Oops. Schedule change. NASA said Jan. 1 it would wait a day before beginning the process of tensioning the five-layer sunshield, getting it into its final form and ensuring the layers are separated from each MORE
Christina Sosbe, with her husband on their wedding day Christina Sosbe, 29, formerly of Salem, appeared in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Monday where she was ordered to spend one year in the Ohio MORE
An anxiety-ridden launch that’s been decades in the making On Christmas Day, NASA is gifting astronomers one of the greatest presents it can give by launching the most powerful space telescope ever created. Called the James MORE
Posed as a 22-Year-Old Today’s Sunday Sermon A Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to stealing her daughter’s identity to attend college and collect financial aid. Laura A. Oglesby, 48, ruined the younger woman’s credit, a MORE
CBS News reported that a new FDA-approved eye drop hitting the market could change the lives of millions of Americans with age-related blurred near vision, a condition affecting mostly people 40 and older. Vuity, which MORE
Using data from insurance claims along with genetics, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found that Viagra (sildenafil) shows high promise as a drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease (source article: The Guardian). First, the researchers used MORE
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many people have now heard of – and have received – an mRNA vaccine. Now a game-changer, scientists are wondering if mRNA vaccines could provide a cure for cancers, HIV, MORE
Just released from Ars Technica, the James Webb space telescope’s “no earlier than” launch date will slip from December 18 to at least December 22 after an “incident” occurred during processing operations at the launch MORE
STATNews shared yesterday that a significant portion of vaccine opposition from right-wing legislators extends far beyond the Covid-19 shot, but their efforts are frequently disguised within rhetoric focused on Covid. [Emphasis added] In Idaho, a MORE
A partial lunar eclipse is on the way, taking place overnight on November 18th and 19th, when the Moon slips into Earth’s shadow for a couple of hours. Weather permitting, the eclipse will be visible MORE
The next astronauts to return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon won’t be able use a crucial system on their trip home next month: the space potty. SpaceX’s toilet on its Crew Dragon Endeavour will MORE
The James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to Hubble, is mired in controversy over its namesake. In 1999, Karen Knierman picked up a free mug at her first big astronomy conference, just before she MORE
Last week, Gina Peddy, director of Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction told educators to make sure that “if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also MORE
On Wednesday, the FDA issued new guidelines that call on processed food manufactures and chain restaurants to reduce added sodium in their food products by at least twelve percent over the next 2 1/2 years. MORE
Earth scientists at the turn of the century, Gavin Schmidt among them, were enthralled by a 56-million-year-old segment of geologic history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). What most intrigued them was its resemblance to our MORE
NASA chose the landing site of its life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover wisely. Perseverance touched down in February on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which was picked primarily because previous observations by Mars orbiters MORE
Anthem Blue Cross, the country’s second-biggest health insurance company, is behind on billions of dollars in payments owed to hospitals and doctors because of onerous new reimbursement rules, computer problems and mishandled claims, say hospital MORE
From NPR: An 80-year-old Illinois man has died of rabies from a bat bite. It is the first human case of rabies in the state since 1954. The exposure occurred in mid-August, when the patient MORE
According to a paper published today in the journal Science, the footprints were pressed into the mud near an ancient lake at White Sands between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, a time when many scientists MORE
A UK reproductive immunologist says that reported disruptions to women’s menstrual cycles after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine should be investigated and disclosed for the success of the pro-vaccine campaign. Dr. Victoria Male, a reproductive immunologist MORE