Jury Selection For 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's Trial Proving A Problem

Asked about drug prices, one potential juror pretended to wring Shkreli’s neck.

Here's What Happens To Breast Cancer Diagnoses When Medicaid Is Rolled Back

A study of women in Tennessee offers a glimpse.

Ohio Councilman Wants To 'Send A Message' By Letting Overdose Victims Die

Incoming Student Struggles To Pay For School That Sold Her Family Into Slavery

Elizabeth Thomas received preferential status but she believes the school could be doing more.

Rachel Bilson Is Heading To 'Nashville,' But Will Always Love 'The O.C.'

The actress also weighed in on a potential reboot for the beloved teen series.

Deep-sea mining may cause ‘irrevocable’ biodiversity loss

A letter from experts newly published in Nature Geoscience warns that deep-sea mining missions may cause biodiversity loss that is ‘irrevocable.’ The loss of biodiversity in these regions is ‘unavoidable,’ according to the letter, and is something that must be taken into account when such missions take place. The effects of how the environment will respond to deep-sea mining is … Continue reading

Disney experiments look to make kid-robot interactions more natural

 Sooner or later, our children will be raised by robots, so it’s natural that Disney, purveyor of both robots and child-related goods, would want to get ahead of that trend. A trio of studies from its Research division aim at understanding and improving how kids converse with and otherwise interact with robots and other reasonably smart machines. Read More

Microsoft wants OneNote to be the go-to classroom app

Microsoft has been quietly focusing on the education market with its OneNote app for some time now. It’s offered free Office 365 subscriptions for students, an integrated math tutor and a classroom-centric add-on called OneNote Class Notebook. The co…

Twitter on Android automatically enters 'night mode' after dark

Twitter added a “night mode” option almost a year ago that ditched a big white background for big dark background so users could nocturnally scroll without keeping themselves awake. But the only thing better than manually switching to the eye-saving…

Democrats pan ‘cynical and immoral’ Trumpcare bill after CBO score released.