Grandma’s Bones Live In My Mouth Now Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Teeth When my grandma left me her teeth I had no choice but to take
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Super sniffer: a male pine processionary moth. (Courtesy: Alvesgaspar/CC BY-SA 4.0) Inspired by the behaviour of moths, researchers have developed a novel collective search algorithm for locating the source of an odour. Robots that mimic moth search patterns have been proposed before for the detection of harmful gases and volatile substances. Now, research led Antonio Celani
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Sen. Kamala Harris’ formidable fundraising machine is kicking into high gear now that she’s on the ticket with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Since Biden named the California U.S. senator as his running mate, her associates in the business world have been getting calls from new donors, according to people familiar with direct knowledge of
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The New York attorney general’s office on Monday said that it is investigating President Donald Trump and his company over how they valued multiple Trump’s assets on annual financial statements that were used to obtain loans, as well as to get economic and tax benefits. The disclosure of the civil probe by Letitia James’ office
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MTV is reviving the ’16 and’ format for its latest series.  The network on Monday announced 16 and Recovering, a brutally honest wake-up call in the tradition of 16 and Pregnant, which helped reduce teen pregnancy to record lows (National Bureau of Economic Research). The four-part docu-series follows nine students at Northshore Recovery High School,
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Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . In one of the stories in Shruti Swamy’s debut collection, A House Is a Body, the main character says this about her
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Scientists are expressing some doubts about the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma as a treatment for Covid-19 patients. In a Sunday news briefing, President Donald Trump touted the treatment as a “breakthrough.” Former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC that while there was enough data to justify the authorization, the
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WASHINGTON — NASA is seeking ideas from scientists on the research astronauts could carry out on the first Artemis lunar landing mission in 2024. NASA announced Aug. 21 it seeking brief white papers on the science the astronauts on the Artemis 3 mission can carry out. The papers, no more than two pages long, are
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during the Democratic National Convention at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images The fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention culminated Thursday with Joe Biden accepting the party’s presidential nomination.  In
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