A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

A Daxbot robot in the city of Irvine is used to assess accessibility. Improving the accessibility of something like sidewalks for people with disabilities simultaneously improves experiences for all ...

The move strips the government of its main gauge of hunger in America, and will impede efforts to track the impact of aid cuts. By Jason DeParle Reporting from Washington Two months after pushing ...

Atlassian Corp. announced its largest acquisition to date with its $1 billion cash-and-stock deal for developer productivity platform DX. The move comes as enterprises struggle to quantify returns on ...

Forget the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real justification for research investment is what we get for our money. Here’s what economists say. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our ...

Many blood pressure (BP) measuring devices do not have FDA marketing authorization and can't be relied upon, the agency said in a safety communication. "Do not use unauthorized blood pressure devices, ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

FREMONT — Voters within an Alameda County public health care district are being asked this November to approve a parcel tax that supporters of the measure say is needed to keep medical equipment and ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger issued his first public rebuke since Gov. Gavin Newsom placed a gerrymander plan on the ballot. By Laurel Rosenhall Reporting from Los Angeles Arnold Schwarzenegger told voters ...

The cost of putting California’s partisan redistricting ballot measure before voters this fall is expected to run the state $282.6 million, eclipsing the final bill of the last statewide special ...

Jenny Gordon is affiliated with The Lowy Institute as a non-resident fellow and with ANU, POLIS, as an honorary professor. In 2023, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced the government would measure what ...

California lawmakers passed legislation this week to prevent health providers from releasing transgender patients’ confidential medical records in investigations of gender-affirming care in states ...