The Drug in ‘Tranq Dope’ Is Great for Horses but Horrific for Humans
Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of…
Author: Matthew Sexton
British Man Died of Rare Blood Syndrome Linked to AstraZeneca’s Vaccine
A 32-year-old psychologist in Britain developed blood clots and died 10 days after he took his first dose of AstraZeneca’s…
Twitter Begins Removing Blue Check Marks From Verified Accounts
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter began removing check mark icons from the profiles of thousands of celebrities, politicians and journalists on…
Elephant Seals Take Power Naps During Deep Ocean Dives
It long seemed as though African elephants were the champions of the all-nighter. They can get by on about two…
NOAA Forecasters See a Respite for California
The News Weather forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued their latest outlook for the United…
Biden Plans to Pick Monica Bertagnolli to Lead National Institutes of Health
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to nominate Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, an oncologist who has run the National Cancer Institute…
What Is a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly?
It doesn’t take a degree in aerospace engineering to know that, ideally, rockets aren’t supposed to blow up. So to…
A Restored 1920s Frank Lloyd Wright Home in Tulsa Just Hit the Market for $8 Million
A new Frank Lloyd Wright listing with a unique design history just came to market. Known as one of only three Oklahoma…
When Your Boss Is an App
It’s hard not to be apprehensive of the ways in which the least pleasant innovations of the gig economy, and…
Starship Explosion a Setback, But Not a Total Failure For SpaceX and Musk
SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded on Thursday, minutes after lifting off from a launchpad in South Texas. The rocket, the most…
How Elon Musk’s Starship Timeline Has Changed Over Seven Years
As big as Starship is, it was originally going to be bigger. In 2016, Elon Musk was dropping hints of…
Starship Has Deep Financial and Symbolic Importance to Elon Musk
Elon Musk has called it the “holy grail” for space technology. Starship, a new SpaceX rocket system that launched for…
Peering Into the Future of Novels, With the Help of AI
In a new novella, “Death of an Author,” the writer, Aidan Marchine, describes a subpar plate of nachos this way:…
Thousands Flock to See a Rare Total Solar Eclipse in Australia
For the tens of thousands of astrophotographers, eclipse chasers and cosmically minded tourists contemplating the best site from which to…