Flying used to be unpleasant. But scarcity, low demand, and public-health risks could make it unbearable.

Four U.S. senators have sent a letter to President Trump that asks for a suspension of all new guest worker visas, including the H-1B, for at least the

Just days after Angela Merkel loosens restrictions, the estimated virus reproduction rate rises.

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The global distribution of all experimentally known atomic spectral lines shows an uncanny resemblance to the Planckian spectral distribution associated with black body radiation at a temperature of ...

The lungs are ground zero for COVID-19, but blood clots may play a surprisingly big role in severe illness

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As the company reopens its iBuying division, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman sees opportunity for iBuyers in beach towns.

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There’s a saying about “being comfortable being uncomfortable” that gets to the heart of Settled Afar more than I’ve realized in the past. Meeting people from around the world who are all trying to figure things out the best they know how, the one characteristic…

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Chuck Moore discusses what it takes to program a 144-core asynchronous chip that consumes only 7 pJ/inst, the idle cores taking just 100 nW while the active ones need 4mW running at 666 Mips: tight coding to minimize the number of instructions executed, reducing…

The gut microbiome and the brain communicate on a desire for glucose (in mice)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the novel respiratory illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is associated with severe morbidity and mortality. The rollout of diagnostic testing in the United States was slow,…