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US Food and Drug Administration inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Elon Musk's Neuralink, less than a month after the startup said it was cleared to test its brain implants in humans, according to an agency report reviewed by Reuters.The inspectors identified quality control lapses at the company's California animal research facility. A similar inspection at Neuralink's Texas facility did not find problems, according to agency records.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

Elon Musk’s underground tunnel-digging enterprise, officially known as The Boring Company, has faced scrutiny over alleged worker safety violations in Nevada in recent years, according to a new report from Bloomberg Businessweek. And while no Boring Company workers have died in the state, the report highlights a number of issues ranging from long hours and a lack of personal protective equipment to “faulty machinery” and burns.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetThe Bloomberg report focuses heavily on a dig site that would…

A medical journal has retracted two studies examining the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone after a federal judge in Texas cited them when ruling that the drug should be taken off the market.The studies, both retracted because of methodology problems and conflicts of interest, claimed abortions involving mifepristone are associated with an increased risk of serious complications compared with procedural abortions. Those conclusions are in contrast with hundreds of studies in the past two decades that have found…

Pierce Brosnan, whose fictitious movie character James Bond has been in hot water plenty of times, is now facing heat in real life, charged with stepping out of bounds in a thermal area during a recent visit to Yellowstone national park.Brosnan walked in an off-limits area at Mammoth Terraces, in the northern part of Yellowstone near the Wyoming-Montana border, on 1 November, according to two federal citations issued this week.Brosnan, 70, is scheduled for a mandatory court appearance on 23 January in the courtroom of the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFormer James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has been given a police citation for straying off the path in Yellowstone National Park, records show.A legal notice seen by The Independent, and first reported by CNN, chides the Mamma Mia! star for "foot travel in a thermal area" on 1 November 2023 in Wyoming.It also alleges the petty offence of "violating closures and use limits", ordering the…

The finding by the Los Angeles County medical examiner that “Friends” star Matthew Perry died from “acute effects” of ketamine is generating interest in the drug.Ketamine is generally safe when taken under medical supervision, experts said, but the Perry case also underscores potential risks.Here are some basics about the drug from Times reporting:What did the autopsy conclude? Perry was found dead in his hot tub Oct. 28.The medical examiner concluded the death was an accident.The high levels of ketamine found in his…

Amazon.com Inc. failed to provide adequate medical treatment to injured warehouse workers in Castleton, New York, federal workplace safety regulators alleged in their fourth citation against the online retailer this year as part of a widening probe of its operations.At least 10 workers with head and back injuries didn't receive proper medical treatment, some returned to work and were hurt further as a result, according to the citation issued Friday by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA has…

Federal authorities have cited Amazon. AMZN 0.11% com Inc. for safety violations at three of its warehouses. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday it had issued citations to the company after inspections at facilities in Florida, Illinois and New York. It said workers at those sites were exposed to ergonomic hazards or hazards with equipment, including having to perform…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found that women who publish physics papers are cited less often than are men. In their paper published in the journal Nature Physics, the group describes their analysis of more than 1 million published papers in multiple journals.…

Women’s scientific contributions are often undervalued and cited less often than those of their male counterparts, including in neuroscience, astronomy, medicine—and, according to two new studies, physics. This new body of work also points to a variety of factors that contribute to this citation bias, which could potentially help researchers and institutions address gender inequality in academia. According to the first new study, published in Nature Physics last week,…