An undercover investigator for Mercy for Animals (MFA) has captured the systemic abuse and torture of pigs on video at the world’s largest meat producer. The MFA investigator secretly filmed the farm animals being cruelly ...
Researchers and digital artists have developed new technology that can create fake videos mimicking personal “style” and facial expressions that look very convincingly like the real person. This phenomenon of fake videos is known commonly as ...
A report outlines the changing nature of labor and how employers and employees must prepare for the future as job automation technology replaces manual labor. A new report from the World Economic Forum titled “The ...
Results from a new study raise concern that air pollution could be harming unborn babies. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London in England announced they found pollution particles in the placenta of pregnant women ...
Amazon successfully patented a design for humans to work alongside robots in Amazon warehouses, though they are unlikely to ever actually implement the novel idea. The 2016 patent has humans sit inside of a metal ...
Gold miners in Canada have unearthed a mummified wolf pup, complete with fur, flesh, internal organs and bones. Scientists said the Ice Age animal died over 50,000 years ago, but remained well-preserved. The rare find ...
Nirmal Mulye, founder and president of Nostrum Pharmaceuticals, is quoted in a Financial Times article on Tuesday saying that he has a moral requirement to sell the product at the highest price. Mulye told Financial ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A report released this summer by the nonprofit group The Cornucopia Institute helps consumers avoid ‘factory farmed’ dairy products in light of disturbing revelations uncovered in a 2017 Washington Post investigation of major organic brands. ...
Last Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra struck down a Texas law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains. The judge said Senate Bill 8 violated the Equal Protection and Due Process provisions of ...
67-year-old Houston psychiatrist Riyaz Mazcuri, along with his associates at Riverside General Hospital, will be spending the next decades of their lives in prison for their roles in a $155 million Medicare fraud case. U.S. ...
A team of researchers has printed a “bionic eye” prototype using 3D printing technology, potentially giving sight to the blind. A team of scientists from the University of Minnesota has 3D-printed a “bionic eye” prototype. ...
Lyme disease and other insect-transmitted diseases are spreading into new regions of the United States and infecting people at an increased rate. Many environmentalists and scientists believe global warming is the culprit. Lyme Disease Now ...
Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos are both known for making huge business announcements, but the company’s most recent announcement regarding their employee healthcare sent insurance stocks plummeting. Amazon has teamed up with both JPMorgan ...
Walmart is perhaps Amazon’s only real competition, and now Walmart is looking to make more aggressive moves into the digital shopping experience by creating a fully functional virtual reality shopping experience. The giant retailer has ...
For the first time, a government official has been indicted for deaths resulting from the Flint water crisis in Michigan. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director Nick Lyon is charged with the ...
With a portable freshwater harvester in development, up to 10 gallons of water could be harvested from the air every hour. The end of freshwater shortage? The innovation was presented by scientists in a meeting ...
A new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found a link between pregnant mothers exposed to the pesticide DDT and increased risks of giving birth to autistic children. Autism is a disorder characterized ...
With increasing research on lab-grown meat, chances are one day no animal will need to be harmed for your next burger. Not only that, but also an infinite supply of meat could mean a lifetime ...
(Stop The Drug War) Research presented at the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco last weekend is illuminating the rapid advance of psychedelic science. New findings are adding to a growing mountain of evidence ...
A new California bill would make the state the first to require that all public universities make abortion pills available at student health centers. The bill has already been approved by the state Senate and ...
The Transparency Problem According to Facebook, information of over 80 million users was used unethically by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica. From a public statement in April, “In total, we believe the Facebook information of up ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has installed facial recognition technology at the Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) in Silicon Valley. The technology is already being used to process international travelers entering and leaving ...
German pharmaceutical company Bayer has taken a stock market dive owed to its newest acquisition Monsanto, and recent media surrounding the carcinogenic impacts of their products. After a San Francisco court sided with a groundskeeper ...
Activists from the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) marched and protested at Petaluma Farms in Sonoma County, California for the second time in recent months after receiving “horrifying footage of birds rotting to ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) just released a report that found glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, in all but two of the 45 conventional breakfast cereals, snack bars, and granola brands it ...
Evolution Of Blockchain The Geon Network works similar to existing cryptocurrencies on the blockchain, allowing users to transfer value between one another using secure protocols. However, Geon is unique in that recipients provide proof-of-location, and ...
The first of what could become an avalanche of crippling blows against Monsanto came on Friday when a California jury ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages to a man who said the ...
The development of artificial intelligence technologies may prove as a promising replacement for live animals in laboratory drug testing. A new study published in the scientific journal Toxicological Sciences states that predictive drug tests on ...
Johnson & Johnson (J&J), maker of the famous talcum baby powder, is currently the target of numerous lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada over customers’ claims that its baby powder causes ovarian cancer. Hundreds of ...
A new documentary interviews families of Argentinian tobacco farmers and asks the question, “Can Monsanto chemicals permanently alter your child’s genes?” While on vacation in the northern Misiones province of Argentina French journalist, documentary filmmaker ...
If you live in or have traveled to any part of Texas during the sweltering summer months, you know that everything is bigger in Texas — especially the extreme heat. Austin firefighters had to deal ...
(Beyond Pesticides) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new guidelines for measures to lower children’s exposures to chemicals in food and food packaging that are tied to health problems such as obesity, metabolic ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is going after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for rescinding proposed bans on trichloroethylene (TCE) under the Trump administration. According to the EWG, the cancer-causing industrial chemical has contaminated tap ...
In 2017 the games industry generated $108.4 billion in revenue, making it one of the most lucrative entertainment industries on the planet. According to reports, “The 2017 Year In Review Report by SuperData shows that ...
(StopTheDrugWar.org) State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has shaken up New Jersey’s marijuana politics with an announcement Tuesday that he has ordered county and municipal prosecutors to defer all marijuana-related cases until early September. The move ...
Scientists are trying to grapple with how a Liberian woman who was cured of Ebola during the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 – 2016 infected family members more than a year later. The revelation ...
A new program is in development to use drones for security responses and medicine delivery in Singapore. The revelation came from the Future Flight Consortium which said the Singapore civil aviation authority and transport ministry ...
U.S. health officials call the opioid crisis the worst public health crisis in American history. Deaths from opioid drug overdoses have quadrupled in the last 20 to 30 years. In fact, there are more opioid ...
A collaborative investigation between the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and NPR unveiled the extraordinary and potentially illegal lengths that pharmaceutical companies employed to boost their Medicaid sales. While Medicaid is required to cover almost all drugs, ...
Increasing Wealth Income Gap “The three richest people in the US – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett – own as much wealth as the bottom half of the US population or 160 million ...
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced that despite growing concern for a possible pediatric cancer cluster in one Indiana county, a state investigation found no evidence of such a cluster as widely reported. The ...
Hawaii has banned the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, becoming the first U.S. state to do so, thanks to pressure from a multi-year grassroots campaign. The movement sprung out of growing health concerns for children ...
President Donald Trump has nominated Scott Hutchins to become the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Hutchins was a former executive at the crop protection division of the Dow Chemical Company (DCC). ...
Walmart has been awarded the right to a patent system that receives and processes the audio interactions of employees as they work. Filed in 2017, the audio surveillance technology is set up throughout a shopping facility ...
How about some pesticides with your scoop of Phish Food or Cherry Garcia? According to a new lawsuit, that’s what you’re getting when you order ice cream from beloved American ice cream company, Ben and Jerry’s. ...
Two Brits were walking in the street near their home and picked up a curious looking vial. Two weeks later, one of them was dead and the other fighting for his life. Dawn Sturgess, 44, ...