Science, Medicine, & Education

A Dallas county judge issued an order on December 19 allowing a lawyer representing Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald to issue subpoenas to compel Twitter to reveal the identity of the subscriber who used the social media platform to intentionally trigger a seizure in the journalist. According to the court filing, Twitter agreed to the […]

The day before the presidential election, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck just outside Cushing, Oklahoma—an 8,000-person town that’s also North America’s top oil-trading hub and one of the largest oil-storage facilities in the world. The quake knocked bricks off century-old buildings, cracked foundations and forced Cushing to evacuate its downtown. Workers at the town’s sprawling

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Police are investigating an alleged scheme in which high school students exchanged nude photos of female students using a shared Dropbox account that apparently spans several schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said. Mountain View High School is the only campus identified as having students tied to the ersatz

The notorious Stanford University band will be suspended through next spring after administrators found “a systemic cultural problem” in the student group that has “not been taken seriously by the band or its leadership.” The punishment stops all band activities, both on and off campus. Students who flout the order could be disciplined individually. “Nothing

WASHINGTON – It took nearly three years for Congress to pass the 21st Century Cures Act. The next question is: How long will it take the Food and Drug Administration to implement it? The legislation, designed to accelerate the introduction of new medical treatments by speeding up some FDA approval processes and boosting federal funding,