Early last month, Amazon announced its $1.7 billion buyout of iRobot, maker of the popular and highly recognizable fleet of Roomba smart home vacuums. The move quickly drew suspicion from over two dozen privacy groups including Fight for the Future and and Public Citizen, who issued an open letter on September 9 to the Federal […]
Following the crash of a China Eastern Airlines 737-800, one of the black boxes has reportedly been found. Here’s what these two units do.
Following aviation disasters like the crash of a Boeing 737-800 in China, experts will consider many factors, from black boxes to weather.
A ProPublica researcher and data journalist explains how she demystified the CDC’s food-safety system, specifically for salmonella outbreaks in meat.
In 2019 the FDA approved the women’s libido drug Vyleesi. But follow-up reviews and discussions show many caveats to how female sexual dysfunction and sex drive are measured.
After leading the research and activism against the US tobacco industry, Stanton Glantz shifted his work to e-cigarettes and vaping. But not to the same success.
Oral immunotherapy for peanut, wheat, and dairy allergies is gaining more experimental traction. But the practice doesn’t have FDA approval.
A panel of medical experts submitted their findings to spur on a Congressional investigation.
It has been 11 years since the FDA approved aripiprazole for children with autism. The drug initially had a reputation of having fewer side effects than its competitor—but a decade’s worth of data suggest that is untrue.
Americans love to take, deliver, and judge the results of polygraph tests. Too bad they’re mostly worthless.
