Edward Jenner performing his first vaccination against smallpox in 1796 Ernest Board/Wellcome Collection/De Agostini via Getty Images A new look at one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history, which rapidly eradicated smallpox in Copenhagen in the early 1800s, has uncovered possible lessons for boosting vaccine uptake in modern times. Smallpox was a devastating…
Move over, figure skating and ice hockey: There’s a new Olympic sport taking to the slopes of Italy. Ski mountaineering, or “skimo,” is the first entirely new sport at the Winter Olympics since 2002. As its name suggests, skimo combines elements of skiing and mountaineering, requiring competitors to climb up a mountain slope before heading…
The 2026 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will air on NBC this Sunday, Feb. 8. The game will also stream on Peacock. If you don’t have NBC over the air and don’t subscribe to Peacock, there are still ways to watch Super Bowl LX — and Bad Bunny’s history-making…
Mars is the location for two new science fiction novels out in February dottedhippo/iStockphoto/Getty Images Do you want to travel to Mars, to an alternate version of 1939 London or even to the very far future? If so, then February’s science fiction is for you, with all three flavours on offer from our authors. I’m…
HBO Max’s Heated Rivalry, a gay hockey romance TV series based on the Game Changers book series by Rachel Reid, is the breakout hit no one saw coming. With almost no promotion, it quickly became one of the most talked-about streaming TV shows in the U.S. after HBO Max purchased the rights from Canada’s Crave…
Noble Audio has the Sceptre, a pocket-sized USB-C Bluetooth transmitter meant to boost wireless audio quality from phones, laptops and tablets. The device is intended to exceed the quality offered by a device’s existing hardware. Sceptre is powered by Qualcomm’s QCC5181 Bluetooth chipset and supports LDAC, aptX Adaptive, AAC and SBC codecs. Of course, to…
There’s more going on when we yawn than we had realised VIVEK PRAKASH/AFP via Getty Images Yawning isn’t just a deep breath indicating tiredness or boredom, but a process that reorganises the flow of fluids out of the brain, according to MRI scans that also suggest we each yawn in a slightly different way. Most…
A federal jury in Arizona has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million in a lawsuit brought by a passenger who said she was sexually assaulted by one of the ride-hailing app’s drivers. The case marks the first time that Uber has been found liable for the safety of its drivers in a sexual assault case….
The long wait for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is nearly over, as the film . To keep the hype train rolling, Illumination and Universal Pictures have dropped a . It’s exactly 30 seconds long, so you’ll probably be seeing it again on TV this Sunday during the Super Bowl. It does feature some nifty…
Billionaire Elon Musk recently spoke at the World Economic Forum Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Elon Musk is a busy man, heading up multiple billion-dollar companies. While he is increasingly a divisive figure, there is no doubt that Tesla and SpaceX, his two most important ventures, have done much to advance the future of electric…
