Published23 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Robin Moore/Re:wildBy Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsConservation actions are effective at reducing global biodiversity loss, according to a major study.In... More »
Published39 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, PA MediaBy Michelle RobertsDigital health editorAn important trial of the world's first "personalised" mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer - melanoma - is n... More »
SAN FRANCISCO — The biggest tech companies in the world have spent billions of dollars on the artificial intelligence revolution. Now, they’re planning to spend tens of billions more, pushing up demand for computer chips and potentially adding new strain to th... More »
The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.The Federal Trade Commission said this week that some people who bought certain home security... More »
SAN FRANCISCO — In June, Inflection AI was riding high. The artificial intelligence start-up founded by veterans of Google’s famous DeepMind AI lab had just raised $1.3 billion from Microsoft and tech billionaires Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman and Eric Schmidt to b... More »
Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of money, sometimes in response to national emergencies and sometimes to do the things people thought were worth doing. We gave ourselves pe... More »
Last week, employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted by almost three to one to join the United Automobile Workers. By the numbers, this wasn’t a big deal: It involved only a few thousand workers in an economy that employs almost 160 million ... More »
Letter from Biden’s WashingtonKing Donald’s Day at the Supreme CourtSource photograph by Jeenah Moon / GettySave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyDonald Trump is nothing if not a dreamer. In seeking to return to the Presidency, it’s as th... More »
Using sensitive instruments onboard ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) mission, astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst named GRB 231115A from the center of Messier 82 (M82, NGC 3034 or the Cigar Galaxy), a starburst irregular... More »
News DeskWhat Harvey Weinstein’s Overturned Conviction Means for Donald Trump’s TrialThe legal issue behind Weinstein’s successful appeal is also at the heart of the former President’s hush-money case.By Ronan FarrowApril 25, 2024Illustration by Nicholas Konra... More »
As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers postpartum care as well.Penny Simkin, a childbirth educator and author who was often described as the “mother of the doula movement... More »
Venice’s first day of charging a fee to enter the historic center went mostly smoothly, but there were some protests and polemics.Pulling into the Santa Lucia train station in Venice on Thursday morning, passengers were told via an overhead announcement that t... More »