French virus testing labs under strain amid resurgent demand
France’s COVID-19 resurgence is palpable in the buzzing biology lab of this public hospital in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil. More than 1 million of France’s 67 million people took a virus test over the past week, putting labs like this under growing...
A Hopeful Forecast: More Accurate Long-Term Weather Predictions
What if you could get an accurate weather report as much as three weeks in advance? In some parts of the world, that could soon be possible.Right now, forecasters can reliably predict the weather in most parts of the United States up to eight days in advance, according to the American Meteorological Society. In recent years, research has shown that improving technology could make weather forecasts...
Astronauts are testing NASA's new spacesuits underwater as the agency pushes toward the next moon landing
NASA wants to get astronauts on the moon by 2024. Before that, the agency must make sure its spacesuits...