Monthly Archives: July 2022

What’s the difference between morning-after pills and abortion medications?

Emergency contraceptives, unlike abortion medications, prevent pregnancies from happening in the first place. Deposit Photos In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down Roe v. Wade and end the constitutional right to abortion, demand for emergency contraceptives has increased in many areas. Some people have been swift to stock up…

Volkswagen is launching a ‘global battery offensive’ with a giant new cell factory

A battery cell. Volkswagen AG Electric vehicles require batteries to help them zip down the road. Those batteries consist of a multitude of individual cells that together form a battery system. Today, in Salzgitter, Germany, the Volkswagen Group broke ground on a new factory that will crank out those cells, someday producing enough of the…

This sailplane could cruise Mars for months on only wind

The Mars Sailplane takes inspiration from the wide wingspan of nature’s best soarers: albatrosses. Emily Dieckman/College of Engineering/University of Arizona In the nearly 120 years since the birth of the airplane, humans have been able to design  aircraft that break the sound barrier and careen upside down through Earth’s skies. Flying high on another world,…

VideoPress, Take 3

We promised you “more is coming” in our latest update—and now more is here. More features that make the finest video service for WordPress even more powerful. You can upload more content with less effort, reach more audiences, and keep sharing more of what inspires you. In this video, we’ll show you what’s new in…

WordPress.com Favorites: The Pelikan’s Perch

Welcome back to our “WordPress.com Favorites” series! In these interviews, we’ll be highlighting bloggers about their passion project. Caution: contents guaranteed to be inspiring.   Today’s featured blog, The Pelikan’s Perch, dives deeply into a niche of a niche: proprietor Joshua Danley writes solely about Pelikan-brand fountain pens.  Even if you’ve never written with a fountain…