I was always terrified of wasting time. A cancer diagnosis made me reconsider.
The room didn’t spin like they say it does. My life didn’t flash before my eyes. I had no difficulty understanding the verdict: It was incurable. They could offer no…
Hospital ICUs are filling up. It’s even worse than it sounds.
As of mid-December, hospitals on average had just 22 percent of their intensive care unit (ICU) beds available across the country, and many were completely full. As the Covid-19 surge…
The worst idea of 2020
It’s year-end-list season. Usually, the Vox science team has some fun and compiles a year-end list of bad ideas in health and science that ought to die with the end…
In 2020, scientists documented hundreds of new species. Here are a few.
It’s the year 2020, and scientists are still discovering new species of life on Earth. No one knows exactly how many types of life are yet undescribed in the scientific…
History for Ardscoil Rís as they take a first colleges title back to Limerick
Updated Thu 8:10 PM Ardscoil Rís 1-17 St Kieran’s College 0-15 Robert Cribbin reports from Croke Park ARDSCOIL RÍS OF Limerick captured their first ever All-Ireland senior hurling colleges title…
Why restaurants are open and schools are closed
Close the bars. Open the schools. Public health experts have been repeating this same refrain since the summer, when many states and cities reopened businesses like bars, restaurants, and gyms…
Social distancing is a luxury many can’t afford. Vermont actually did something about it.
In the middle of March, while many Americans were panic-buying milk and toilet paper, Michael Redmond had other things on his mind: how to safely house the dozens of people…
Big electric trucks and buses are coming. Here’s how to speed up the transition.
Click:table sets are built There’s a growing consensus in the climate change community that the key to transitioning the US economy from fossil fuels is to electrify everything — shift…
Naas hold off four-time winners St Brendan’s in thriller to win first Hogan Cup for Kildare
Naas CBS 3-14 St Brendan’s Killarney 2-15 Richard Commins reports at Croke Park NAAS CBS BECAME the first Kildare school to lift the Hogan Cup after a high-quality encounter with…
As coronavirus cases surge, hospitals are beginning to be overwhelmed
As confirmed coronavirus cases rise to their highest levels since the pandemic began, hospitals across the country are reporting critical staff shortages. And those shortages may only grow worse in…