Walgreens has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who took faulty Theranos blood tests, according to a court document filed Monday.The proposed settlement agreement will be filed in about three weeks, according to the court document. The details of t... More »
Update, 24 May, 10:05 a.m.: After this story was published, Sarepta issued a release saying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration now expects to complete its review of the company’s gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy by 22 June. Five years ago, when ... More »
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Recent shark bites in Florida and Hawaii and a suspected case in New Jersey have piqued interest in an age-old summer question for beachgoers — is it safe to go in the water?Scientists and researchers who study sharks said the overwhelmi... More »
Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed a bill Monday that bans abortion, with exceptions, after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The new law is just the latest in a string of strict restrictions on abortion passed by individual states since Roe v. Wade was overturne... More »
Venus Williams is helping to save the childhood home of music icon and civil rights activist Nina Simone.The tennis champion, who is also an entrepreneur and arts patron, has been working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and its African Americ... More »
Virologist Robert Cross’s lab is equipped to handle some of the world’s most dangerous viruses. At the Galveston National Laboratory he has worked with guinea pigs infected with Ebola virus and macaques carrying Lassa fever. What it can’t accommodate are pigs,... More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is planning a small test reactor that would burn a large amount of weapons-grade uranium, according to the project’s draft environmental assessment. The experiment, to be built in a cost-sharing arrangement, would provide da... More »
Stephen Cass: Welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast. This episode is brought to you by IEEE Xplore, the digital library with over 6 million technical documents and free search. I’m senior editor Stephen Cass, and today I’m talking with a forme... More »
Three recent incidents of orcas seemingly attacking and sinking boats off the southwestern tip of Europe are drawing intense scrutiny over whether the animals deliberately swarmed the vessels and if they are learning the aggressive behavior from one another.En... More »
Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of publisher Activision Blizzard took another step to the finish line when it received approval on Friday from China's competition regulators. China's State Administration for Market Regulation approved the deal without any ... More »
One of the first things the writers of “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” did when they started developing the show was brainstorm and write down every question they’d ever had about the mysterious little creatures on a giant whiteboard.Tiny, furry, adorable bi... More »
In a recent article that stressed America’s impressive recovery from the Covid economic slump, I compared current conditions with those in late 1988, when George H.W. Bush won an electoral landslide in part because of the perception that the economy was in gre... More »