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
On Tuesday afternoon, a fight broke out at University of Alabama at Birmingham when a student allegedly attacked some guy man and a woman who identified themselves as preachers. A witness to the incident said MORE
Minnesota Senator and former Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar revealed on Thursday that she was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer earlier this year. In February of this year, doctors at Mayo Clinic found small white MORE
DATELINE: BIGELOW HIGH SHOOL, ARKANSAS – Before delivering the 2020 – 2021 yearbook to students earlier this month, school administrators ripped out a two-page spread depicting a timeline of events from the academic year. Among MORE
On Tuesday, the Newberg Public Schools board voted 4-3 to ban Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and other “political” signs, flags and articles of clothing from their campuses. At a later date, the Board will vote MORE
Germ theory denialist Facebook group went from 147 members in April 2020 to 18.4K now. Listen up, sheeple: COVID-19 doesn’t exist. Viruses don’t cause disease, and they aren’t contagious. Those doctors and health experts who MORE
Simone Biles, four-time Olympic gold medalist, will not compete in Thursday’s individual all-around competition after withdrawing from the team finals because of a mental health issue, according to an emailed statement from U.S.A. Gymnastics. Biles MORE
Tony PALM BEACH, Fla. – A lawn care worker named Tony as walking to work when he saw a man in a car having a seizure. Without thinking, he ran up to the rolling car and grabbed MORE
“A poll on the 52nd anniversary of the moon landing shows a majority of Republicans now reject science, sparking a COVID-19 comeback.” When the three-man mission had blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in MORE
Corissa McCalister, 22, took a plea deal in which she admitted to the assault in exchange for a sentence of two years’ probation and 80 hours of community service, according to local CBS affiliate WTRF. MORE
Officials at University Hospitals in Cleveland have placed two caregivers on administrative leave after a patient received a kidney was meant for someone else. Although the kidney matched the incorrect recipient and said recipient is MORE
ATLANTA (AP) — Three Democratic U.S. senators from states that have refused to expand Medicaid want the federal government to set up a mirror plan to provide health insurance coverage to people in those states. MORE
The eastern Mediterranean coast was a crowded place 120,000 years ago. By that time, Homo sapiens — anatomically modern humans — had migrated out of Africa and settled in modern-day Israel and Arabia. Meanwhile, Neanderthals MORE
A New York Times analysis found no identifiable DNA for tuna in Subway’s tuna sandwich, the newspaper reported over the weekend, citing tests conducted by a commercial lab. The Times bought 60 inches worth of MORE
(CNN)Paleontologists working in China have discovered a new species of giant rhino, the largest land mammal ever to have walked the earth. Giant rhino, Paraceratherium, were mainly found in Asia, according to a press release MORE
Bessie Lacks and her grandson Jermaine Jackson of Kalamazoo, Michigan, were overwhelmed with emotion when they received their Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations earlier this spring. Not just because they were being vaccinated or because they were MORE
The new map is the product of years of work by a group of 400 scientists from seven countries, known as the Dark Energy Survey (DE.S). . . .(more) In a series of studies published this week, MORE