How a Single Finger Snap Became a Scientific Game-Changer

How a Single Finger Snap Became a Scientific Game-Changer

Feb. 24, 2022 — Raghav Acharya, a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, was watching Avengers: Infinity War a few years back when he had a thought: How was supervillain Thanos able to snap his fingers while wearing a metal gauntlet? Acharya, an undergraduate studying chemical engineering, took that question to assistant … Read more

Single Mom by Choice: What You Need to Know

Single Mom by Choice: What You Need to Know

By Kathryn Murray, as told to Michele Jordan I never saw myself as truly maternal. I’m a girl from L.A., from a large, blended family. I’ve lived all over the country and I’ve been exposed to many cultures. I was truly happy. I told myself that if I didn’t have children by age … Read more

Covid-19: ‘One medic saw eight people die in a single shift’

Covid-19: ‘One medic saw eight people die in a single shift’

image copyright@frontline19 image captionClaire Goodwin-Fee: “People are being pushed to the brink” Coronavirus has changed many people’s working lives for the worse. Many of us have been isolated from our colleagues; others have been made redundant by employers citing the costs of the pandemic. In the NHS and in care homes, though, the pressures have … Read more

COVID-19 Deaths Surpass 9/11 Deaths in Single Day

COVID-19 Deaths Surpass 9/11 Deaths in Single Day

Dec. 10, 2020 — The U.S. reported more than 3,080 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, marking the highest day so far in the pandemic and passing the number of deaths recorded on 9/11, according to New York magazine. On Sept. 11, 2001, four coordinated terrorist attacks killed 2,977 victims, which was the single deadliest terrorist … Read more

In last two decades, not a single moment when all humans were together on Earth

In last two decades, not a single moment when all humans were together on Earth

There has not been a single moment when all humans have been together on the Earth since the past twenty years. For past twenty years, there has been constant human presence in space. (Photo: Reuters) Over the last twenty years, there has not been a single moment when all of mankind was together on planet … Read more

Single breast cancer treatment ‘as good as course’

Single breast cancer treatment ‘as good as course’

Image copyright Getty Images A single targeted dose of radiotherapy could be as effective at treating breast cancer as a full course, a long-term study suggests. Researchers said people who received the shorter treatment were also less likely to die of other cancers and heart disease in the following five years. But cancer specialists have … Read more