Throughout his time as UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has tried to distance himself from the insinuation that he is the British equivalent of Donald Trump, a comparison that the former US President himself was keen to make.
Cheney booed in speech prior to vote when she criticized Trump
Rep. Liz Cheney lost her post in the House Republican leadership on Wednesday after publicly rejecting for months former President Donald Trump’s lie that he won the 2020 presidential election.
Top congressional leaders to meet with Biden for the first time in crucial week for his infrastructure plan
President Joe Biden faces a crucial moment on Wednesday in what is shaping up as an important week for his infrastructure priorities when he holds his first bipartisan meeting with the top four members of congressional leadership at the White House.
The best USB charging stations for 2021
Charging stations allow you to charge multiple phones, tablets, and other devices from a single outlet. We’ve rounded up the best USB charging hubs available.
7 things you didn’t know the Apple HomePod Mini could do
The Apple HomePod Mini sounds great, but is capable of doing a lot more than people realize.
New testing for bike helmets accounts for head injuries sustained at speed
A new method tests for the first time how well helmets protect against the commonest and worst cycling brain injuries: those sustained from motion
Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers results within 4 minutes with 90% accuracy
A low-cost, rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 developed by Penn Medicine provides COVID-19 results within four minutes with 90 percent accuracy. A paper published this week in Matter details the fast and inexpensive diagnostic test, called RAPID 1.0 (Real-time Accurate Portable Impedimetric Detection prototype 1.0). Compared to existing methods for COVID-19 detection, RAPID is inexpensive …
Kids place moral value on money
Children who learn that a dollar is ‘dirty’ are apprehensive to take it, preferring instead to accept a dollar that does not have a negative moral history, a new study shows.
COVID-19: Discovery of the mechanisms of short- and long-term anosmia
Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the earliest and most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19. But the mechanisms involved had yet to be clarified. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm, Université de Paris and the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) determined the mechanisms involved in the loss of smell in patients …
Is it too risky to lift lockdown early in the UK? It depends on the kind of risk
On Sunday May 2, only one person in the UK died from COVID-19. It’s a remarkable achievement after a terrifying winter spike in the disease which saw the UK rack up one of the highest per-capita death tolls in the world. Now, after a long lockdown, even previously cautious epidemiologists are feeling encouraged.