Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial.

A California jury has found Meta and YouTube liable on all counts in a landmark case that accused the tech giants of intentionally addicting a young woman and injuring her mental health. Meta and YouTube were negligent in the design of their platforms, knew their design was …

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The U.S. Military Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp in Ecuador. It Was a Dairy Farm.

As President Trump prepared to welcome conservative Latin American leaders to a summit in Florida in early March, U.S. officials released a video of a massive explosion — capturing the destruction of what they said was a drug trafficker’s training camp in rural Ecuador. The …

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Could our universe exist because black holes ate up all the antimatter ?

One of the most fundamental and curious mysteries in the universe is the fact that anything exists at all. That is because during the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter particles should have been created — antimatter being like the "opposite" of regu…

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NASA to Provide Update on Implementation of National Space Policy.

NASA will host a public event at 9 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 24, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington to outline how the agency is executing President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and accelerating preparations for America’s return to the surfac…

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The US bans all new foreign-made network routers.

The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk. The rule states that new foreign-made product models for network routers will land on the Covered List, a set of communications…

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Ted Nichols, Famed Hanna-Barbera Composer on ‘The Flintstones’ and ‘Scooby-Doo,’ Dies at 97.

Ted Nichols, who composed, conducted and arranged music for such beloved Hanna-Barbera cartoons as The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussycats, has died. He was 97. Nichols had a long battle with Alzheimer’s and died Jan. 9 in hospice care in Aubu…

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Jury finds that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted woman in 1972 and awards her nearly $60 million.

A civil jury in California found Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $59.25 million US. After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found Cosby, 88, liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger. The…

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UN expert says world has given Israel ‘licence to torture Palestinians’.

UN expert says world has given Israel ‘licence to torture Palestinians’ A United Nations expert says the world has given Israel a licence to torture Palestinians, with life in the occupied Palestinian territory “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”. Francesca Albanes…

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Saudi Aramco cuts oil supply to Asia for second month in April.

Saudi Aramco, the world's top oil exporter, has cut crude supply to ​Asian buyers for a second month ‌in April, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, after the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran ​disrupted trade via the Strait of ​Hormuz. The producer is suppl…

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'Supernatural' Star Carrie Anne Fleming Dead at 51.

Actress Carrie Anne Fleming -- perhaps best known for her roles on shows like "iZombie" and "Supernatural" -- has died. According to multiple reports, Fleming passed away February 26 in Sidney, British Columbia in her native Canada. She reportedly succumb…

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Germany has a shortage of workers - so it's turning to India for help.

Germany is continuing to struggle with a shortage of skilled workers, as elderly staff retire, and there are not enough young candidates to fill their roles. To try to alleviate the problem the country is increasingly turning to workers from India. For Handirk von Ungern-Ste…

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Iran strikes near Israeli nuclear research center as Trump threatens attacks on Iranian power plants.

Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel’s main nuclear research center, while President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants i…

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Watch NASA roll out Artemis 2 moon rocket tonight ahead of April 1 launch.

NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad tonight (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftoff, and you can watch the action live. The Artemis 2 stack will leave Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) huge Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) tonight at around 8 p…

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Iran ready to let Japanese vessels transit Hormuz.

Iran is ready to let Japanese-related vessels pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global ​oil supplies, Kyodo news reported, citing Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. Tehran ‌has started talks with Tokyo, including with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Mote…

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NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Makes Second Flight.

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft made its second flight on Friday, kicking off a series of dozens of test flights in 2026.  Although the flight duration was abbreviated due to a technical issue, the team was able to collect information that will inform future tests.  “De…

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Chuck Norris, martial artist and Hollywood movie star, dies aged 86.

Tributes have been pouring in from around the world to US martial artist and Hollywood action star Chuck Norris, who died aged 86. "He may have a warrior exterior, but his heart was so full of love," his daughter Danilee Norris said. Swedish actor and martial artist…

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Jury finds Elon Musk liable for misleading investors during Twitter purchase.

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding …

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'At the edge of what we thought possible': Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe.

Scientists have adopted the role of "cosmic archaeologists" to discover a rare, iron-deficient second-generation star — essentially a fossil record of our universe's chemical evolution. Just as uncovering artifacts here on Earth teaches us about lost generatio…

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NASA to Cover Progress 94 Spacecraft Launch, Space Station Docking.

NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch…

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2,000-year-old artifact may be evidence that Romans found New World — a thousand years before Columbus.

Was there a New World order we didn’t know about? The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus. Dubbed the Tecaxic-Cali…

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COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show.

COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021. Tha…

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Tehran confirms top security official Ali Larijani has been killed.

Tehran has confirmed that its top security official Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has been killed. The Supreme National Security Council of Iran announced the death of Larijani in a statement early Wednesday local time, describing him a…

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How fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers may be one step closer to resolving 'Hubble trouble'.

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling headaches in cosmology, the Hubble tension. The Hubble constant — named after Edwin…

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Two days, two coasts, two more SpaceX Starlink batches launched.

SpaceX launched two more sets of Starlink satellites on back-to-back, coast-to-coast flights on Friday and Saturday. First up, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 13. The 25 satellites (Group 17-31…

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