system_init
Establishing Data Link...
Section
science
This section is ready for editorial assignment. Published stories will appear here as soon as they are tagged in the CMS.
science
Ventilator Makers Race to Prevent a Possible Shortage
Gregory Barber//35 views
Eric Gjerde, CEO of Airon Corporation, a small ventilator maker in Gainesville, Florida, has been getting far more business than he’d like in recent weeks. An I...
science
A SoftBank-owned company used Theranos patents to sue over COVID-19 tests
Nicole Wetsman//24 views
The ghost of Theranos is still haunting the biotech industry, even in the middle of a pandemic. A shell company called Labrador Diagnostics LLC, which says it h...
science
Mexican gray wolf numbers in the US soared in 2019
Justine Calma//29 views/1 comments
The US population of endangered Mexican gray wolves jumped by 24 percent last year, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday. That’s exciting news f...
science
Go read this in-depth look at how COVID-19 will challenge hospitals
Taylor Lyles//32 views
The coronavirus is going to challenge industries across the globe, and among the most pressing questions is whether hospitals in the United States will be adequ...
science
As universities shut their doors, international students are left in limbo
Monica Chin//31 views/1 comments
“I’m kind of freaking out,” said USC senior Eudelio Garza, who is from Mexico. “No one really knows what’s going on.” For some of the university’s 12,000 intern...
science
Space startup Lynk uses satellite to send text message to unmodified Android phone
Loren Grush//47 views/1 comments
An aerospace startup that plans to launch thousands of satellite “cell towers” into space says it has successfully sent a text message to a common Android smart...
science
Coronavirus Treatment: Hundreds of Scientists Scramble to Find One
Carl Zimmer//30 views/1 comments
matter In an ambitious international collaboration, researchers have “mapped” proteins in the coronavirus and identified 50 drugs to test against it. Working at...
science
This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones
Nicholas St. Fleur//37 views
Trilobites The ring of skulls, skeletons, tusks and other bones was too large for a roof, scientists say, so what was it for? Ice Age hunter-gatherers, foraging...
science
Why Birds Are the World’s Best Engineers
Siobhan Roberts//41 views
A nest is “a disordered stick bomb,” resilient in ways that humans have hardly begun to understand, much less emulate. Sticks in a cylindrical experiment at the...
science
Why we’re seeing some severe COVID-19 cases among younger people
Justine Calma//38 views
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has been much deadlier in older people, but more anecdotes are popping up of young, healthy people gettin...
science
Israel is using cellphone data to track the coronavirus
Monica Chin//41 views
Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, to use cellphone location data to help combat the coronavirus. According to a...
science
Soothing live animal webcams to watch while you’re stuck at home
Mary Beth Griggs//40 views/2 comments
Human visitors have vanished from the halls of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and the penguins are taking over. Since the aquarium temporarily shuttered its doo...
science
Watch SpaceX launch the same Falcon 9 rocket for the fifth time
Loren Grush//31 views
Update March 18th, 10:35AM ET: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully took off on time and deployed all 60 satellites into their intended orbit. However, the roc...
science
People with insurance could pay over $1,300 for COVID-19 treatment
Nicole Wetsman//36 views
Someone with health insurance from their employer could pay $1,300 or more out of pocket for treatment if they’re hospitalized with a severe case of COVID-19, t...
science
Why the US is still struggling to test for the coronavirus
Nicole Wetsman//42 views
People who are sick or have been in contact with sick people are struggling to get tested. Until last week, the number of tests that could be run per day in the...