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digital privacy, personal data, deceptive tactics, California legislation

California Bans ‘Dark Patterns’ That Trick Users Into Giving Away Their Personal Data

coal toxins, energy giants, ash cleanup, costs

Cleaning Up After the Coal Plant Next Door

screen time, pandemic, health, digital detox, challenge

24-Hour Digital Detox Challenge: Win $2,400 by Stepping Away From Screens for One Day

giraffe genome, evolution theories, human hypertension therapy

Giraffe Genome Holds Keys to Its Peculiar Body — and Clues to Hypertension Treatments

pollution, environment, cleaning, synthetic biology

Cleaning Pollution the Synthetic Biology Way

endangered songbirds, regent honeyeater, lost song

Endangered Regent Honeyeater Bird ‘Has Forgotten Its Song’

cybersecurity, SMS, text hacking, flaw

How a Hacker Hijacked All My Texts for $16

Posidonia seagrass, climate change, natural defense, threatened

‘Forever Plant’ Seagrass Faces Uncertain Future, and Climate Change Shares the Blame

Daylight Saving Time, research, Sunshine Protection Act, Congress

Daylight Saving Time Is Here, and It Could Be the Last Time We ‘Spring Forward’

private surveillance cameras, security, hackers, thousands breached

Tech Startup Workers Had Extensive Access to Private Customers’ Surveillance Cameras

stimulus bill, relief checks, pandemic recovery, equality

Stimulus Bill Takes Aim at American Inequality

climate change, sea level rise, sinking land, study

Sinking Land and Rising Seas: the Dual Crises Facing Coastal Communities

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