Russia's number one women's tennis player Daria Kasatkina has announced that she is gay. In an interview with Russian YouTube blogger Vitya Kravchenko, the 25-year-old said that "living in the closet" is impossible, adding that sh ...

Researchers trained robots on artificial intelligence exhibited racist and sexist behavior, bringing concerns for the future of automation.

The oil kingdom fears that its population is aging at an accelerated rate and hopes to test drugs to reverse the problem. First up might be the diabetes drug metformin.

Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday.

In Japan, posting “online insults” will be punishable by up to one year in prison from today, the new law was passed earlier this summer. Individuals guilty of internet insults may be fined up to 300,000 yen (about $2,200). Previously, the penalty co ...

Production workers at the long-running animated television shows The Simpsons, American Dad! and Family Guy have gained voluntary recognition from their parent company, 20th Television Animation, to join The Animation Guild. According to a statement ...

The aging process is associated with declines in brain function, including memory and how fast our brain processes information, yet previous research has found that higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults leads to better executive ...

Germany on Friday abolished a Nazi-era law forbidding doctors from providing information about abortions. The Bundestag lower house of parliament voted to scrap the law, meaning doctors are now allowed to give out additional information about abortio ...

Between slime puppy and a dick pic to dad, Succession has tried to be the most grotesque show on television. It comes close, but Amazon Prime’s The Boys takes the honor in a more literal sense: in the currently running third season alone, we’ve seen ...

Lisbon (Portugal) Diet has a strong influence on the intestinal flora and thus also on human health. A study recently showed that a low-fat, vegan diet leads to more healthy intestinal bacteria and thus makes it easier to lose weight. In a pilot stud ...

Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.

Regulators released the first batch of information since mandating that companies such as Tesla report on serious crashes involving their driver-assistance systems.

It’s too late to stop catastrophic climate change, many people fear. Frequent extreme heat waves, droughts and floods: these are already happening, and most climate experts say they’re likely to get worse. But what if science and technology could pro ...

The U.S. Interior Department, which helps oversee the country's national parks, says it is planning to phase out single-use plastics on its land and facilities by 2032. The agency would be tasked with finding alternative materials to disposable ...

A tiny group of people with rectal cancer just experienced something of a scientific miracle: their cancer simply vanished after an experimental treatment. In a very small trial done by doctors at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cente ...

Phase I study shows that mRNA-based vaccines can be used to stimulate T cells to recognise neoantigens in pancreatic cancer patients.

We often hear stories of people who’ve learned from their dreams or been inspired by them. Think of Paul McCartney’s story of how his hit song “Yesterday” came to him in a dream or of Mendeleev’s dream-inspired construction of the periodic table of e ...

Andrew Garfield is having a very good year. In the past 12 months, the actor has portrayed disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, landed an Oscar nom for playing Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick … Boom! and dusted off his web-shoo ...

A new randomized controlled study of LSD microdosing has failed to find evidence that the psychedelic practice results in improvements to mood or cognition. The research has been published in the journal Addiction Biology.

Text-to-image artificial intelligence programs aren’t anything new. Indeed, existing neural networks like DALL-E have impressed us with their ability to generate simple, photorealistic images from brief yet descriptive sentences. But this week I was ...