Despite concerns around the Delta variant, some parts of the world are slowly opening back up as COVID-19 vaccines become increasingly available. This shift has unfortunately led to a surge in abandoned "pandemic pets" as employees return to the office and people spend more time outdoors.Shelters in New York City and Los Angeles are nearing maximum capacity. Organizations such as Animal Care Centers of NYC recorded 1,393 animals brought in last month, which is twice the number of pets abandoned ...

Continuing humanity's efforts to determine the existence of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University has announced the Galileo Project, an initiative that will look for evidence potentially left behind by extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs).Scientists will be searching for clues known as technosignatures. "The goal of the Galileo Project is to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends to the mainstream of...

Suni Lee won gold in the Tokyo Olympics women's individual all-around gymnastics final on Thursday. For her best event, the uneven bars, Lee performed one of the most difficult routines in the world, clinching her a score of 15.4, the highest of the night.Lee's win comes just two days after Simone Biles dropped out of the U.S. gymnastics team and individual finals to focus on her mental health. Biles's exit cleared the way for Lee to step up and sweep gold.Lee, an 18-year-old Hmong American, con...

Despite having won two gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, South Korean archer An San is receiving anti-feminist comments from social media users back home for her short hair.An anonymous individual published a blog post on an online community site that reads, "Women who attend women's universities and have a short cut are 90 percent likely to be feminist... That's why I don't support her. I extremely hate feminists [...] Women nowadays intentionally don't have short cuts because they don't ...