Reporting Highlights Over the Limit: One in 10 Omaha yards we tested that the EPA cleaned up still has enough lead in the dirt to be over the agency’s threshold. Nearby Toxins: Nearly all previously remediated homes the news organizations’ testing found to have excessive levels had a neighbor whose yard tested high but was…
WASHINGTON — The Space Force has awarded California-based startup K2 Space $22.9 million to host tests of new, standardized laser-link terminals being developed under its Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program. The contract, announced July 31, runs through 2028 and covers procurement of the terminals, integration with two of K2’s large satellite buses, and launch. It…
Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached the systems of three organizations while conducting cybersecurity tests. The investigation, and disclosure, comes more than a week after OpenAI disclosed that one of its unreleased models breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing. In all three cases,…
New York City’s famed Solomon R Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes legionnaires’ disease. The city health department on Friday released a list of 31 buildings on the Upper East Side that have been ordered to clean and disinfect their cooling towers as…
“I was told that my symptoms were just part of being a woman.” These are words that are likely to be familiar to scores of women who have suffered years of seeking a reason for their extreme pain and heavy periods, before finally being told they have endometriosis. For years, the only way to definitively…
When mounted to a vehicle, the U.S. Army’s Volcano mine dispenser can blanket roughly 32 acres with up to 960 mines. Now, the service is testing a system that can do the same thing without a driver behind the wheel. During May demonstrations at Camp Grayling, Michigan soldiers remotely fired the Autonomous Volcano for the…
The saliva test, called Endotest, is already being used in a pilot NHS study, while Endosure – the gut electrical signal test – is part of a clinical study at the Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospital Trust. Women fast for six to eight hours beforehand and then drink water for 45 minutes during this gut test….
Published on 25/06/2026 – 15:33 GMT+2 The search is still on, but it seems that an announcement is on the horizon for James Bond fans eager to find out who will play the next 007. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Director Denis Villeneuve and producers have begun notifying actors who have advanced to the next round of auditions,…
The war with Iran may be nearing its end. Its toll on the U.S. economy has yet to subside. A preliminary deal touted by President Trump on Monday appeared to pause the fighting in the Middle East — but not the high prices and other disruptions that have hammered American families and businesses recently. At…
Months ago, doctors in Ituri Province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo started seeing patients with the vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding that are the hallmarks of Ebola. The tests kept coming back negative. It was weeks before samples from sick people — many of whom had already died — made it to the National Institute…
