The Atlantic explains why the term “breakthrough infections” may be creating confusion about just how well the COVID-19 vaccines are working.

Families are starting to get the new child-tax-credit payments. The Washington Post breaks down a program that’s being called the biggest anti-poverty effort in decades.

CNN has an update on the deadly flooding in Europe, where dozens of people are dead and hundreds missing.

Venus is relatively close to Earth, but we know surprisingly little about our “sister planet.“ Popular Science spoke with scientists working on the first NASA-funded missions to Venus in decades.

Gizmodo reports on new research that has identified 14 living descendants of Leonardo da Vinci.