Enlarge / Clinical specimen bags labeled with Sanford Health. A medical waste management company in Fargo, North Dakota, has filed a damning lawsuit against the… Read More »Medical waste company sues health system over hidden human torso
DoorDash said Wednesday it would begin giving its delivery drivers the option of being paid a minimum hourly wage, rather than making money for each… Read More »DoorDash, shifting business model, offers drivers an hourly wage
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Simon Mackenzie, a security guard at discount retailer QD Stores outside London, was out of breath. He had just chased down three shoplifters who had… Read More »Facial recognition is spreading as a tool to combat shoplifting
When Tonga’s underwater Hunga Tonga volcano lost its temper during an eruption on Jan. 15, 2022, it spewed globs of magma and blew clouds of… Read More »Exciting volcanic eruption produced the most extreme lightning detected
When five TikTok creators in Montana filed a lawsuit last month, saying the state’s new ban on the app violated their First Amendment rights and… Read More »TikTok is funding lawsuit from Montana users against ban
Enlarge / Satellite controllers in Dubai monitor the launch of a Soyuz rocket from Russia on Tuesday. For the first time since the invasion of… Read More »Trend or deviation? Russia is launching foreign satellites again
With cars, the stakes are much higher: they cost tens of thousands of dollars, and replacing gasoline cars with electric models is key to tackling… Read More »Tesla may have already won the electric vehicle charging wars
Beyond Washington’s densely populated western suburbs, the vistas widen to open expanses of fields and farmland—a panorama often interrupted by massive, windowless buildings that house… Read More »The demand for data centers is increasing enormously
Enlarge / The upper stage for SpaceX’s next Starship test battle, dubbed Ship 25, will be tested in Texas earlier this month. SpaceX will debut… Read More »SpaceX is making over 1,000 changes to the next Starship rocket
When I recently turned on Google’s new Pixel Fold smartphone and unfolded it like a book, it turned into a miniature tablet, similar to an… Read More »Google Pixel Fold Review: Foldable phones are getting better
The largest shark alive today, up to 20 meters in length, is the whale shark, a placid filter feeder. But only 4 million years ago… Read More »The largest predatory shark in the world had an elevated body temperature
He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic professor of religion at Yale University and a… Read More »John B. Goodenough, 100, deceased; Nobel laureate of the lithium-ion battery
Enlarge / This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander, about the size of an average two-car garage, that would carry… Read More »NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag — and it’s colossal
