Sara Chodosh, assistant editor at PopSci, talks about the 2017-2018 flu season, widely regarded as one of the worst since the 2009 swine flu epidemic.
We discuss why the baby boomer generation is being hit the hardest and ways you can protect yourself. Chodosh harps on the importance of keeping your hands clean. She encourages everyone to consider getting a flu shot. Even if you contract the flu, the shot will at least help keep your symptoms moderate.
Scientists have discovered a new asteroid that's been tagging along with Earth for the past 2,000 years. The space rock is called a "quasi-moon," since it's only slightly influenced by the Earth's gravitational pull, but it still makes the journey around the sun much like the earth does.
Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that's losing its natural areas, but for the well-being of people living on it, according to a new study.
