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Byline: Fred Guterl In early 2020, as the pandemic was looming, Dr. Anthony Fauci corresponded with a group of scientists about the possibility that the COVID-19 virus escaped from a [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The new comet that's appeared in the night sky between the Big and Little Dippers is no visual extravaganza. To the unaided eye, it's just a small, [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl For nearly three years now, much of the world has shared a single hope as a New Year grew near: a return to some semblance of pre-pandemic [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl When Blake Lemoine went public in June about his experience with an advanced artificial-intelligence program at Google called LaMDA-the two, he says, have become 'friends'-his story was [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Everywhere you look, people are coming out from under their pandemic rocks. The masks are off, the bars are crowded, the kids are back in school. Even [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The Omicron wave currently washing over the world may soon hit its peak. According to the scientists at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Like last year at this time, the very best we can hope for in 2022 is an end to the pandemic that has caused such devastation in [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The COVID-19 pandemic may have made a future pandemic more likely. In a terrible irony, nations eager to get a handle on the virus and its variants [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl As India descended into a COVID-19 tragedy that dwarfed anything the country had experienced in the pandemic so far, with hospitals inundated, oxygen supplies short and vaccines [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Back in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl For all the flak that President Trump has taken over the federal government's response, or lack thereof, to the coronavirus pandemic, the government's vaccine development project, Operation [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The unprecedented swiftness with which medical science is developing a vaccine for COVID-19 is one of the most inspiring stories in this historic chapter. Vaccine candidates emerged [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Dr. Anthony Fauci may be the only immunologist in the world who needs no introduction. He's dealt with numerous infectious disease outbreaks--and the political turmoil that often [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl As Memorial Day signals the start of summer, Americans are yearning for a return to normal. Restrictions are falling by the wayside throughout the country. Maine's governor [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl As states loosen up on social distancing rules, people aren't the only thing that will go back to work--so will the coronavirus. Dropping restrictions will allow the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl With unemployment claims ballooning to 22 million people, the coronavirus lockdown took an uncomfortable turn for state governors on Wednesday. Workers and small business owners clogged the [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl The Thwaites Glacier is about the size of a U.S. swing state and holds enough ice to raise sea levels by about 10 feet. This alone is [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Shortly after Iran lobbed two-dozen missiles into two U.S. military bases in Iraq last week, the country's foreign minister tweeted that Iran had 'concluded' its 'proportionate' response [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl Listening to Jimmy Wales speak is a bit like reading a Wikipedia page: Sound bites are few, but the tone is fair and measured. That's one reason [...]

Byline: Fred Guterl It would be hard to imagine a more revealing source of personal information than our own DNA. The 3 billion units of genetic information contained in each [...]

DEPARTMENTS: Periscope IN EARLY 2020, AS THE PANDEMIC WAS LOOMING, Dr. Anthony Fauci corresponded with a group of scientists about the possibility that the COVID- 19 virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. Many scientists took the studies, together with what's known about the wild animal trade in Wuhan, as strong evidence that the virus likely originated in the market, by natural means, rather than in one of Wuhan's virology labs. [Extracted from the article]

"Those little pieces, which could be the size of mountains, become the comets that we know today", says Amy Mainzer, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. In September, NASA's DART spacecraft struck the asteroid Dimorphos with a projectile, demonstrating the feasibility of deflecting an asteroid or comet, should it ever be necessary. Whereas asteroids tend to live in the inner solar system, jostling with one another and with the planets "like a bag of marbles", as Mainzer puts it, comets are pristine objects. In 1995, Congress charged NASA with identifying 90 percent of all asteroids, comets and other near- earth objects bigger than one kilometer in diameter. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Fred GuterlBuilding cars that can drive themselves through busy downtown streets safely and efficiently is above all a staggering achievement in artificial intelligence, which is why tech companies were [...]

FEATURES FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS NOW, MUCH OF THE WORLD HAS SHARED A SINGLE hope as a New Year grew near: a return to some semblance of pre-pan demie normalcy. KERRI ANNE RENZULLI ICY MOONS The planet Jupiter is no stranger to Earth vessels. Disney will also offer movies aplenty, such as the animated musical, Wish (November 22), about a mythical land where wishes come true, and three live-action movies - a remake of The Little Mermaid (May 26); The Haunted Mansion (August 11), based on the theme-park attraction; and, on Disney+, a remake of Peter Pan & Wendy. DIANE HARRIS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF THE HOUSE THAT WALT BUILT The Walt Disney Corporation will be celebrating its founding 100 years ago with year-long festivities. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Fred Guterl By the time astronomer Scott Sheppard started looking at Jupiter's moons in a serious way in the 2000s, the planet had already been picked over like a [...]

The article reports that bipartisan measures in the U.S. Senate to provide unprecedented investments in vaccines, therapeutics, and testing with concerns and efforts of the U.S. President Joe Biden. Topics include Covid-19 variant come along the protection of vaccines and prior infections with antiviral medications and vaccines for all; and Russia's invasion of Ukraine dominated news after which scientists, doctors and public health experts lays out possible scenarios for the next one year.

The article discusses, Athletes competing At the Winter Olympics in Beijing have gotten first-hand experience of China's prowess in controlling COVID-19 outbreaks. Unlike the often vague and inconsistent policies of the U.S., Beijing has perfected the art of the lockdown. Athletes have been strictly cordoned off from the outside world, required to wear masks.

Three fossil hunters under the supervision of University of Poitiers paleontologist Michel Brunet found a skull, Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumai), that is approximately 7 million years old. Discovered in the desolate outlands of Chad, Toumai is the oldest known hominid fossil.

The possibility of terrorists acquiring biological agents from Russian laboratories is discussed. Although security at such institutions remains a concern, converting these pathogens into bioweapons would be difficult according to experts.

The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 2001 have put biological warfare in the spotlight. The difficulties surrounding the effective release of biological and chemical weapons and their potential harm are discussed.

The article discusses the uncertainty over the existence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the future. It reports that the variant Omicron leaves enough natural immunity in the population to end the pandemic, and there are possibilities of the virus changing into benign forms like the common cold or influenza, requiring yearly shots and constant vigilance for the next pandemic. However, scientists also believe that it may be replaced by any troublesome variant.

The article discusses 22 things to look forward including innovations, events and technology and sports in 2022. Topics include AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are rolling out 5G—short for fifth generation mobile network—broadly across the U.S.; the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China running February 4–20 and featuring 109 events in 15 disciplines across seven sports; and Apple Glasses, a pair of augmented reality smart glasses the company is supposedly creating, could launch in 2022.

The article focuses on visionaries and innovators on Newsweek's inaugural list of Greatest Disruptors. Topics discussed include development of affordable human-like bionic limbs by seeing a little girl missing a leg using a tree branch; focus on employing technology in a way that is driving fundamental, transformative change in business, health, the environment, culture or society; and work on teaching computers to understand human emotion.

The article presents the discussion on lab leaks, bioterror, and politics during Covid-19 pandemic. Topics include increasing the likelihood of future lab accidents releasing dangerous pathogens; improving response time in developing therapeutics and vaccines; and establishing a national stockpile of vaccines against smallpox and neutralizing the smallpox virus as a potential bioweapon.

IF MIS PROFESSIONALS are fretting over the economic clouds of slower growth and higher interest rates that have recently appeared on the horizon, they're not expressing this anxiety in their […]

The article reports that the U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January, 2021 in the wake of the SolarWinds attack, an unprecedented and disastrous penetration of U.S. government computer systems by hackers believed to be directed by the Russian intelligence service, the SVR. Topics include considered that Americans seem to assume that a cyber attack, even by an avowed adversary like Russia or Iran.

The article focuses on devastating effects of COVID-19 pandemic around the world. It reports on masking and social distancing guidelines revised by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in a battle against COVID-19. It presents views of virologist John Moore on vaccination against COVID-19, as of May 2021.