Author: Shad Bauswell

Physicists are struggling with their responsibility as guardians of the United States’ aging nuclear weapons in Sarah Scoles' new book.

The World Obesity Atlas released by the World Obesity Federation has indicated that obesity rates among children and adolescents are surging globally, requiring urgent preventive measures to ensure healthier future generations. The soaring obesity rates across the world revealed significant gaps in healthcare and nutrition, with the poorest populations most severely impacted. Statistics shown by […]

“The craziest rumor I’ve seen is that while I was filming ‘Anyone but You,’ I was having a relationship with my costar Glen Powell,” the actress said

Max Domi understands better than most what it takes to be a tough guy in the NHL.

Tests on mice show that the body's defense against a UTI causes nerves to grow in the bladder and reduces the level of pain that can be felt.

Humans could live on the fictional planet Arrakis from Dune but (thankfully) no giant sandworms would menace them.

Since December 2018, Electrum Bitcoin wallet users have been under siege by a persistent phishing campaign, resulting in losses totaling 771 BTC (around $4 million). Malwarebytes Labs uncovered the scheme, revealing that hackers exploited a software vulnerability to deceive users into downloading a fake version of the Electrum wallet. In response, Electrum’s developers took an unusual step in February. They leveraged the same software flaw to redirect users towards downloading the latest, patched version of the wallet. However, the situation escalated in March when a new vulnerability emerged. Developers then initiated what they called a “counter-attack,” essentially targeting vulnerable clients…

In The President’s Speech, a 1985 essay by the late neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, he observes a group of people with aphasia, a language disorder, as they laugh uproariously at the television. The cause of their amusement is an unnamed actor-turned United States president, presumably Ronald Reagan, addressing his audience: “There he was, the […]

If they’re honest and humble enough, people who study societies that existed in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans will admit that they don’t really understand those societies. They’ll know the facts about pre-Hispanic cultures and chronologies, yet how people in those societies thought, their values and psychologies, remain maddeningly out of reach. It’s like reading poetry […]

Yesterday, in the New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson analyzed a trio of recent books on humanity’s future in the larger cosmos. They were How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Space Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight; Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets; […]