BEST WEATHER APPS
According to a Washington Post article, 82 percent of people get their weather updates on their phones, and there are more than 10,000 weather apps to choose from. The article breaks down the pros and cons of each app.
LOUD PLANET
Researchers said a repeating radio signal from an exo-planet 12 light years away suggests the planet may have a magnetic field, and even an atmosphere that could support life.
NASA’s newest X-ray observatory is circling the world after launching from Kennedy Space Center.
In the spirit of the holidays, Cheddar presents the 12 days of the top terms of 2021.
Pfizer says a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine appears to offer important protection against the new omicron variant.
A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space on Wednesday and reached the International Space Station several hours later.
Hawaii Flooding, Beijing Boycott & Disrupting Death
With rising numbers of COVID-19 cases predicted this winter, President Joe Biden is appealing for Americans to get their boosters and get behind his plan to tackle the new omicron variant through wider availability of vaccines and shots.
The U.S. identified its first known case of the omicron variant Wednesday — in a vaccinated traveler returning to California from South Africa — as scientists around the world raced to establish whether the new, mutant version of the coronavirus is more dangerous than the previous ones.
A person in California has become the first in the U.S. to have an identified case of the omicron variant of COVID-19.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling it will uphold Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortion — and may go much further to overturn the nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.
The world is confronting a new coronavirus variant, and officials have named it “omicron." A World Health Organization panel has classified it as a highly transmissible virus of concern.
