Last Tuesday, North Korea announced that it wouldn’t be participating in the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for later this summer. Concerns over coronavirus have already caused a record delay of the Olympics, which have previously only been canceled during world wars, but North Korea is the first country to withdraw completely.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone, but imagine being stuck in a foreign country, far away from friends and family, with no way to get back? This is the problem that 40,000 Australians have been facing amid the extreme regulations and flight...
While the number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 grows, so does the number of questions. How does the vaccine actually work? Does everyone still have to wear a mask? Does the vaccine prevent you from getting sick?
Vaccine
Vaccines work by...
The Ingenuity helicopter experienced its first night on the frigid surface of Mars, a primary milestone in the rotorcraft’s journey ahead. The 4-pound helicopter separated on April 3 from the abdomen of the Perseverance rover, where it had been...
On February 1st, the military of Myanmar launched a coup to seize power in the southeast Asian nation. The coup was successful, ousting the democratic government led by Aung San Suu Kyi that had been in place since 2011. Ever since, protests of all kinds...
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover securely settled on the red planet at 3:55 p.m. on February 18, 2021 after the 292.5 million-mile expedition from Earth. The spacecraft returned a high-definition glimpse of the rover's shadow upon the surface of...
Over one hundred years after their last deadly and damaging earthquake, Croatia was struck with a 4.4 magnitude earthquake. According to UNICEF situation reports, 8 people have been killed, 36 injured, and 30 pulled from the rubble. The Croatian Government...
Hospital Mania
The United Kingdom unfortunately received a second wave of the Coronavirus recently. Not only does it have several new characteristics than the previous outbreak, it seems to have brought more people into the Emergency Room in such a...
Animal testing is the horrifying practice with disastrous impacts. It is defined as, “the procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into diseases and assessing the effectiveness of new medical products and testing human health/environmental...
After 196 days of operating within Earth's orbit beyond the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy returned from his third space commission. Alongside Cassidy's arrival were cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian...
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, recently announced that Russian scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that would make Russia the first to approve an experimental vaccine for the virus. However, some experts are questioning the effectiveness...
With the ever increasing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an abundance of different masks to choose from. So, which type is most effective?
Surgical masks
Surgical masks are loose-fitting, fluid resistant, single use masks made...
