88 articles from FRIDAY 10.6.2022

Rename monkeypox to remove geographic stigma, researchers say

Some content has been removed for formatting reasons. Please view the original article for the best reading experience. The name “hMPXV A.1” may not roll off the tongue, but a prominent, international group of researchers contends that something like it should replace the current naming system for monkeypox and its so-called West African and Congo Basin strains. “In the...

America’s Best Astrophysicists Are Taking UFOs Seriously. Maybe You Should Too

NASA has spent more than 60 years flying UFOs. Every spacecraft that ever visited the moon, landed on Mars, buzzed by Jupiter, orbited Saturn, or reconnoitered Pluto would be a decidedly unidentified flying object to any alien intelligence that might encounter it. There may be no such intelligence beyond Earth in our solar system. But in interstellar space? That’s another question....