Scientists create a pattern so complicated it’s impossible to duplicate
Scientists just created a pattern that, according to researchers, is impossible to duplicate or forge, a feat that could quash counterfeiters.The key to these patterns lies in a two-step verification system that incorporates both...
60,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days — And No One Knows Why
In May 2015, nearly half of all the saigas, a critically endangered antelope that roams the steppe of Kazakhstan, died off. Exactly why is still a mystery.
It started in late May.When geoecologist Steffen Zuther...
How are COVID-19 deaths counted?
Trucks used as temporary morgues sit outside the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's office on May 12, 2020.
As coronavirus has swept through the United States, finding the true number of people who...
COVID-19 is killing 20 times more people per week than flu does, new paper...
An image showing 35 coffins stored in a warehouse in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, on March 26, 2020, prior to be transported to another region to be cremated during the COVID-19...
Do face masks really reduce coronavirus spread? Experts have mixed answers.
Homemade face masks contain the coronavirus only a little.
For the first time, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that even seemingly healthy people wear masks over their mouths and noses...
20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history
An influenza ward at a U.S. Army Camp Hospital in France during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
Throughout the course of history, disease outbreaks have ravaged humanity, sometimes changing the course of history and,...
