The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill that can be sold without a prescription for the first time in the… Read More »FDA approves first US over-the-counter birth control pill
Enlarge / The fate of a mission to return monsters from Mars hangs in the balance. The U.S. Senate on Thursday cut the budget for… Read More »The Senate just lobbied a tactical nuke to NASA’s Mars Sample Return program
A World Health Organization agency said on Thursday that aspartame, an artificial sweetener commonly used in diet drinks and low-sugar foods, may cause cancer. However,… Read More »Aspartame may be linked to cancer in humans, WHO says
The cryptocurrency industry won an early victory in its lawsuit with US regulators when a federal judge on Thursday ruled that selling a digital asset… Read More »The judge’s ruling on Ripple’s XRP token gives the crypto industry a win
The Hollywood actors’ union on Thursday approved a $134 billion strike for the first time in 43 years US film and television business shut down… Read More »Hollywood actors join writers on strike, bringing the industry to a standstill
For most IT professionals, moving to the cloud has been a godsend. Instead of protecting your data yourself, you can have it protected by the… Read More »How a cloud flaw gave Chinese spies a key to Microsoft’s kingdom
Like the standout writers, leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, have described their labor dispute in stark terms, calling the present moment “existential” for their… Read More »Hollywood actors vote for strike: live updates
A ban on TikTok on state devices and networks in Texas was challenged Thursday by First Amendment lawyers, who said the law violated the Constitution… Read More »Texas TikTok ban challenged over ‘academic freedom’ threat
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the artificial intelligence start-up that creates ChatGPT, over whether the chatbot harmed consumers by collecting… Read More »FTC is investigating ChatGPT Maker
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency company Celsius, was arrested Thursday and charged with fraud, federal prosecutors said. Mr. Mashinsky was… Read More »Founder of bankrupt crypto company Celsius arrested on fraud charges
Enlarge / A light, low-cost space telescope design would allow many individual units to be placed in space at once. Astronomers have so far discovered… Read More »A new telescope design with thin lenses could far surpass James Webb
When Small first entered the cemetery in the summer of 2012, she burned sweetgrass – a plant with spiritual significance in native cultures. “The sweet… Read More »The Dark Secrets buried at Red Cloud boarding school
As the war dragged on, organizations responding to the crisis realized they needed to be flexible and think beyond fixed, physical healthcare infrastructure. They had… Read More »Doctors on bicycles have prevented a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine
Enlarge / The Jezero crater shows clear signs of water-formed deposits, so it’s no surprise to find water-altered material there. Organic chemicals, mainly composed of… Read More »Rover sampling finds organic molecules in water-altered rock on Mars
Ray Epps, the man at the center of a widely publicized conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, filed a lawsuit… Read More »Fox News sued for defamation by man over conspiracy theories
