Social media platforms will soon have to exclude children under 16 in Australia, but there are doubts over how age verification tools will work – and whether this is the right approach to deal with online harms
SpaceX's Starship nailed its 10th-ever test flight on Aug. 26. Footage from the launch pad that day shows just how much power the giant rocket packs.
Back in the day, getting fooled by a fake cheat code from word of mouth or early web forums was almost a rite of passage for gamers. It's been a long time since people were playing Pokemon Yellow and Final Fantasy for the first time, however, and AI has apparently taken over the role that used […]
Learn how DNA from teeth found at a mass grave unraveled the mystery of the world's first plague pandemic.
Formaldehyde-free hair-straightening products have been marketed as a safer option, but they may pose a risk to kidney health, a case series suggests.
This sneak peek at 'Skin in the Game' is a battle of wits between galactic heavyweights.
For decades, the mid-life crisis marked the peak of ill-being but global surveys now show mental struggles most severe in the early twenties.
Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is still in prison — but she's back online, in the weirdest way imaginable. As it stands, the former CEO of the infamous healthtech startup Theranos is currently serving out an 11-year prison sentence at a minimum security prison in Texas. As a quick recap, Holmes claimed that her company had invented a medical testing device, called Edison, that could detect a wide range of illnesses — diabetes, cancers, and more — with just a few pinpricks of blood. These claims were nothing short of fantastical, according to experts, and absolutely not based in reality: the […]
Public health experts warn that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s leadership crisis—sparked by the White House’s efforts to oust CDC director Susan Monarez—could jeopardize national biosecurity, pandemic preparedness and disease outbreak surveillance
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