Digital Gems

Pfizer and BioNTech are testing a third dose of a Covid vaccine for young children. The third dose is a lower amount than the adult doses.

Omicron will likely become the dominant strain across the majority of the US by Christmas but Prizer's new Covid pill offers a glimmer of hope in staving off severe illness.

2021 Google searches revealed our interest in alternative assets like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and persistent economic insecurity, evidenced by questions about stimulus checks and student loan forgiveness. It also showed the cultural rift between millennials and Gen Z cropped up in queries about hair parts and jeans, as did other social media trend, like how to make TikTok pasta or Squid Game cookies. When Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, Americans tried figure out how to be a normal person again, like what kind of pants to wear and if you could wear sweatpants.

The Wright brothers were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

OpenAI has released new fine-tuning features for its GPT-3 natural language model. The new tools enable developers to customize GPT-3,..

Many of us are taught that if we work hard enough we’ll be able to get over our losses. The social scientist Pauline Boss sees it differently.

The human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent six potentially lethal malignancies, but inoculation is meeting with rising resistance from parents.

A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers.

Bells, bows and gifts: For some people, these images will be sharp reminders of distance between them and important family members.

An interview with Priya Fielding-Singh, the author of “How the Other Half Eats.”

The Turkish lira has fallen another 12% relative to the dollar, bringing its plunge to about 50% since rate cuts began in September. Erdoğan yesterday announced he's raising Turkey's minimum wage by an eye-popping 50%— a move that could also stoke further inflation which remains over 21%.

As of the Dec. 15 deadline, 97.9% of active duty soldiers in the US Army have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine, slightly trailing 98% of the Navy but slightly higher than the Air Force (97.5%) and the Marine Corps (95%). The Air Force discharged 27 airmen who had refused to get the shot and the Navy has fired one sailor for refusing to be tested while he was pursuing an exemption.

Australian miners found a millipede with 1,306 legs, making it a "true" millipede. The typical millipede has 750 legs.

Politicians and their immediate families bought $267 million and sold $364 million worth of assets this year, of which 60% were company stocks. Republicans bought $100 million worth of stock versus $75 million for Democrats.

Former NASA engineer released the fourth iteration of his signature Glitter Bomb revenge against porch pirates.

Characteristics like the kinds of households that we live in can influence, our health, or even the gender of our children can affect our investing decisions.

Cryptocurrency users lost at least $7.7 billion to scams in 2021, an 81% over 2020

Facebook parent identified and cracked down on six cyber mercenary companies that spied on as many as 50,000 users in 100 countries.

In case you haven’t heard … prices? They’re higher these days. That’s not terribly surprising, given the global supply chain debacle, but it turns out a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic has an impact, too. Dozens of countries have experienced inflation since the onset of the pandemic, and the United States has one highest rates. Today, we look at how the U.S. approach to addressing inflation differs from other countries around the globe. We’ll also take a trip to a warehouse to see its role in the global supply chain, hear how the Great Resignation isn’t necessarily benefitting everyone and celebrate jobless claims that haven’t been this low since the Beatles were together.

Researchers projected that in 35 to 60 years, the Mountain West will be nearly snowless for years at a time if worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are not rapidly reduced. The Mountain West has already lost 20% of its snowpack since the 1950s and could lose another 50% by the end of this century.

The mission is expected to launch in 2023 and could kick off a series of launches that could help reveal whether Earth's "evil twin" once hosted— or still hosts— life.

Former McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook is relinquishing more than $105 million after a sexual misconduct coverup.

How should lawmakers assign legal rights and responsibilities in areas where corporations have blurred these lines of entrepreneurship.

The US is averaging nearly 120,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, which is a 40% increase from last month, and deaths have increased 12% over November.

Women undergoing common elective or emergency surgeries had a 15% higher chance of dying or experiencing a major complication within 30 days than when male surgeon performed the surgery compared to when a female surgeon did.

Casual computer users have probably never heard of this logging software, but it's used across the entire internet.

Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.

The agency’s advisers cited concerns about the increased incidence of a rare but potentially serious blood clotting condition among those who received the company’s shot.

Corporate executives increasingly share the same political views. Learn about the (lack) of laws that shaped this trend and the consequences for society.

Learn abouot upbringing of Ayn Rand, the Russian American philosopher and writer that described selfishness a virtue and capitalism as the ideal system.