Rory McIlroy sang Journey in New Orleans. He also won the golf tournament
NEW ORLEANS — Rory McIlroy is on the TPC Louisiana 19th green stage with a beer in one hand and a microphone in the other. He’s got Mardi Gras beads…
Australia news live: Chalmers touts India ties despite revelations of ‘nest of spies’; NSW police investigate drive-by shooting | Australia news
Chalmers touts Aust-India ties despite spy revelationsAustralia still has a good relationship with India, treasurer Jim Chalmers says, despite revelations a nest of Indian spies was disrupted by federal spy…
Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’ | Prostate cancer
Methods of screening men for prostate cancer will be trialled in an attempt to save thousands of lives in the UK each year, in what has been hailed as a…
US military bases teem with PFAS. There’s still no firm plan to clean them up.
In 2016, Tony Spaniola received a notice informing him that his family shouldn’t drink water drawn from the well at his lake home in Oscoda, Michigan. Over the course of…
Even Walmart thinks American healthcare is too expensive
Walmart isn’t making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop. The retail giant announced today that it’ll shutter all 51 health centers it…
This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding
When Marianne Smith was teaching computer science in 2016 at Flathead Valley Community College, in Kalispell, Mont., the adjunct professor noticed the female students in her class were severely outnumbered,…
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic arm just by thinking about…
Mobile sports betting will remain illegal in Mississippi after legislation dies
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mobile sports betting will remain illegal in Mississippi after legislative negotiators failed to advance a final proposal Monday.The House and Senate passed versions of the Mississippi…
The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup
A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the…
Why NASA’s Psyche mission targets a metal-rich asteroid
NASA is heading to a world unlike any yet explored by humankind – a large asteroid believed to be made almost entirely of metal.It will take six years, after the…