Olympic women's sport limited to biological females.

The women's category of Olympic sports will be limited to biological females from 2028. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says eligibility will be determined by a "once-in-a-lifetime" sex test, which would prevent transgender women and those with differ…

Share:

Read More

Daniel Moody Wrestler Paul Bearer's Son Dead At 39.

Daniel Moody -- the son of the late WWE Hall of Famer Paul Bearer -- has died at the age of 39. According to a GoFundMe, Moody went to a hospital in November "for a procedure and suffered a major health crisis and is now in long-term care."  At the time, the page wa…

Share:

Read More

NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing.

Media are invited Tuesday, April 21, to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a look at the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which recently completed construction and is wrapping up prelaunch testing. This will be one of the last opportun…

Share:

Read More

Jupiter and the moon take a sunset stroll tonight. Here's how to see it.

Look to the east at sunset tonight (March 26) to see the half-lit form of the waxing gibbous moon shining close to the gas giant Jupiter in the evening sky, as the bright stars of the constellation Gemini twinkle nearby. The moon will make its closest approach to Jupiter at …

Share:

Read More

U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says.

The Trump administration brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela for U.S. refiners, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. Burgum traveled to Venezuela earlier this month with oil and mining executives. The U.S. sees a major opportunity to invest in the country’s minin…

Share:

Read More

NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two space observatories provide scientists with a richer, more…

Share:

Read More

Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to kids.

A Los Angeles ​jury on Wednesday found Meta (META.O), and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 million verdict that will serve ‌as a bellwether for numerous similar cases. The jury found Met…

Share:

Read More

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 …

Share:

Read More

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 …

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

'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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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…

Share:

Read More

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 …

Share:

Read More

'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…

Share:

Read More