On May 24th, 2022, 19 children and 2 teachers lost their lives in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Parents waited in anguish at a local civic center to learn if their child had survived. The agonizing screams of family members could be heard from the parking lot outside. This marks the 27th school shooting so far this year in the United States. Just 10 days before the Texas shooting, 10 Black people has been killed in a racist rampage in a Buffalo, New York supermarket.

Baking a mixture of saltwater and materials that mimic dust from the moon or Mars at a high temperature produced sturdy bricks that could be used to build human habitats in space

According to the alleged memo, Microsoft intends to provide merit-based compensation to employees at "all levels 67 and below."

Spain's government has greenlit plans to allow women to take unlimited paid "menstrual leave" from work, in a European first. The proposal endorsed by ministers on Tuesday is part of a broader package on reproductive rights that includes allowing teenagers to seek an abortion from the age of 16without the need to get their parent or guardian's consent.

The emergency filing Friday seeking to block the Texas law -- HB20 -- comes two days after a divided federal appeals court let it take effect while a legal challenge filed by the tech groups goes forward.

Under the continued threat of imprisonment by Vladimir Putin’s regime for anti-government activism, Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina successfully escaped Russia last month, only able to safely flee Moscow by disguising herself as a food courier.

Apple, Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password burden on Internet users, but caution that a true passwordless future may still be years away for most websites.

“The Batman” is getting a sequel, with Robert Pattinson set to return as Gotham’s fiercest defender. Warner Bros. revealed its plans for another Caped Crusader story

Elon Musk said his tunnel-building-for-urban-transport business The Boring Company will attempt to build a high-speed, and still theoretical, hyperloop.

For the last several decades, nuclear power has been viewed by many in the US and abroad as an energy source that’s too risky, not “green” enough, or otherwise undesirable. But with climate change alarm bells clanging and countries around the world looking to cease imports of Russian oil and gas, nuclear’s starting not to look so bad. This week the Biden administration launched a six-billion-dollar bailout initiative (or stimulus, depending how you look at it) to keep existing nuclear pl...

An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.

The only halfway realistic aspect of “Jurassic Park” may be that the land was thronged with life, much of which with fangs. One can hardly generalize about the weather 200 to 145 million years ago, but the Jurassic by and large seems to have been warm and wet. The fact is that a lot of new species emerged in that time, from the lumbering stegosaurs and gigantosaurs to the earliest known proper birds – yes, your duck had ancestors back then. Tiny rodents began to emerge. In the Late Jurassi...

The images rebut Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, near Kyiv, took place after its soldiers had left town.

In two weeks, Fortnite has raised a total of $144 million for Ukraine relief efforts. Ahead of its most recent season, developer Epic Games said that it would be donating all of its proceeds from the game, along with those from Microsoft, to humanitarian efforts following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for a period of two weeks.

Despite its history, Disney wants to see the Don’t Say Gay bill repealed.