In Bid to Make Passengers Feel Safer, TSA Prepares to Screen Temperatures at Airports
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing to possibly add a new element to its pre-boarding screening procedures in the U.S. airports: checking temperatures....
Saturday’s Best Deals: Joker, Soulcalibur IV, Short-Sleeve Button-Ups, and More
A dress sale at Express, a copy of Soulcalibur VI and the season pass, short-sleeve button-ups at JACHS NY, a sale on One-Punch Man...
Experiment Shows Some Life Can Survive in Exoplanet-Like Conditions
Single-celled organisms like Escherichia coli and yeast can grow and survive in an atmosphere like the kind theorized to exist on many rocky exoplanets,...
Yet Another Amazon Worker Has Died of Coronavirus
One warehouse associate at JFK8—Amazon’s massive fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York—has died of the novel coronavirus, in what is at least the...
I Just Remembered That I Ate a Murder Hornet Once
When I first saw an image of the Asian giant hornet, now famously referred to as the “Murder Hornet,” my first thought was “I’d...
Animal Agriculture Could Cause the Next Public Health Crisis
Covid-19 is a zoonotic virus, meaning it spread to humans from an animals. Scientists aren’t sure which animal spread it to us, though they...
Freedom of Information Is Disintegrating (Faster) Under the Coronavirus
Federal lawmakers say that in response to the pandemic, the FBI and other executive agencies may have placed unnecessary restrictions on Americans’ ability to...
Covid-19 Reached Europe in December, New Evidence Suggests
In late December 2019, a 42-year-old man with pneumonia-like symptoms was admitted to a Paris hospital. Shockingly, a test of the patient’s stored sample...
