Inside the marketplace for vaccine medical exemptions
“They’re very blatant,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law San Francisco who studies vaccine…
Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change
For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales, and blue whales,…
ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team
Together, these teams would operate as intelligence arms of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. They…
Microsoft’s Entra ID vulnerabilities could have been catastrophic
“Microsoft built security controls around identity like conditional access and logs, but this internal impression token…
The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”
Doing more with less? Although the Trump administration aims to accelerate nuclear energy through executive orders,…
Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate,…
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why
These sought-after regions are scientifically vital and geopolitically sensitive, as multiple countries want to build bases…
Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked
Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked…
Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs
For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for…
Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense
Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the…
RFK Jr. wants to change program that stopped vaccine makers from leaving US market
Dr. Paul Offit, a co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and director of the Vaccine Education Center…
5 big EV takeaways from Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”
Plus, OBBB got rid of penalties for automakers who fail to meet Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader
In the meantime, the Copyright Office is in the odd position of attempting to carry on…
Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system
Elliptic also confirmed in its blog post about the attack that crypto tracing shows Nobitex does…
Biofuels policy has been a failure for the climate, new report claims
The new report concludes that not only will the expansion of ethanol increase greenhouse gas emissions,…
Cybercriminals turn to “residential proxy” services to hide malicious traffic
For years, gray market services known as “bulletproof” hosts have been a key tool for cybercriminals…
Penguin poop may help preserve Antarctic climate
The ammonia from the guano does not form the particles but supercharges the process that does,…
Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise
Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are…
How did eastern North America form?
For decades, geologists have understood the broad picture of how eastern North America came to be….
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language…
Huh? The valuable role of interjections
Wiltschko and her students have now examined more than 20 languages, and every one of them…
New research shows bigger animals get more cancer, defying decades-old belief
The answer lies in how quickly body size evolves. We found that birds and mammals that…
EV battery manufacturing capacity will rise when 10 plants come online this year
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate,…
Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
That mission, and the 2020 Chang’e-5 robotic mission before it, are the first to return lunar…