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No, soaring COVID-19 cases are not due to more testingCOVID-19 cases are surging upward around the U.S., reaching 100,000 daily cases for the first time on Nov. 4 and 150,000 only eight days later.
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Skin-eating fungus from Europe could invade US, decimate salamandersThe Southern Appalachian mountains are a global biodiversity hot spot for salamanders. And now a skin-eating fungus from Europe could decimate them.
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Death rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID-19 patients as treatments improveTwo large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August.
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Who invented the Electoral College?Here's how the U.S. electoral college came to be.
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A history of contested presidential elections, from Samuel Tilden to Al GoreThe presidential elections of 1876, 1888, 1960 and 2000 were among the most contentious in American history. Here's why.
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Why has our normal body temperature been dropping?A new study looks at one hypothesis explaining why humans' body temperatures have been on the decline. Here's what it found.
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Why black holes are the scariest things in the universeHere's why black holes are the scariest objects in the universe.
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Will our solar system survive the death of our sun?Our sun's death is a long way off — about 4.5 billion years, give or take — but someday it's going to happen, and what then for our solar system?
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Why Americans are so enamored with election pollsWhile it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion research industry to implode or wither away.
