On January 12, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney announced that she would vote to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the violent insurrection as the US Capitol six days earlier.
How crowdsourced lidar could give your car X-ray-like superpowers
Currently, self-driving cars can only see as far ahead as their onboard sensors can scan. But what if they could use the sensors in the car ahead of them too?
Amazon removes popular tech accessory brands amid fake review scheme leak
Amazon is removing listings from many popular tech accessory brands, as a massive leak uncovered a huge pay-for-play review scheme.
The 2021 Boston Marathon Field is Fast
Runners are ready to race again. The Boston Marathon was oversubscribed by more than 9,200 qualifiers.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage trailer delivers chaos, comedy, and messy breakfast
Sony Pictures’ first trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage blends chaos and comedy in Tom Hardy’s return and Woody Harrelson’s villainous turn.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: Everything we know so far
Writer-director James Gunn returns to lead Star Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and the rest of the team in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Here’s what we know.
Tweet and re-tweet: Songbird stuttering allows researchers to pinpoint causes in the brain
Speech problems such as stammering or stuttering plague millions of people worldwide, including 3 million Americans. President Biden himself struggled with stuttering as a child and has largely overcome it with speech therapy. The cause of stuttering has long been a mystery, but researchers at Tufts University are beginning to unlock its causes and a …
Long-lasting medications may improve treatment satisfaction for opioid use disorder
A commentary from leaders at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the NIH, discusses a new study showing that an extended-release injection of buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, was preferred by patients compared to immediate-release buprenorphine, which must be taken orally every day. Extended-release formulations of medications used to …
Scientists find mechanism that eliminates senescent cells
Scientists at UC San Francisco are learning how immune cells naturally clear the body of defunct—or senescent—cells that contribute to aging and many chronic diseases. Understanding this process may open new ways of treating age-related chronic diseases with immunotherapy.
Study reveals new mechanism of lung tissue regeneration
New research performed in mice models at Penn Medicine shows, mechanistically, how the infant lung regenerates cells after injury differently than the adult lung, with alveolar type 1 (AT1) cells reprograming into alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells (two very different lung alveolar epithelial cells), promoting cell regeneration, rather than AT2 cells differentiating into AT1 cells, …