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Jun Wu's team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have created hollow balls of cells that closely resemble embryos at the stage when they usually implant in the womb — known as blastocysts. The new laboratory-made embryo-like entities have been dubbed "blastoids."

Scientists Create Living Entities In The Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos

These structures made from living human cells are similar to human embryos at the stage when they implant in the womb. They allow scientists to research new ways to treat infertility.

Tourists arrive at Palma de Mallorca, Spain, last summer. The EU's executive arm has proposed a certificate to ease travel across its member states.

EU Officials Propose Digital Travel Certificates — Vaccination Not Required

Certificates with QR codes would serve as proof that a person has either been vaccinated against COVID-19, received a negative test result or recovered from the disease.

Nurse manager Lucy Golding draws up doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine March 14 in Stamford, Conn. Moderna has begun enrolling infants and young children into a vaccine trial.

Vaccinating Children Seen As A Key Step Toward COVID-19 Herd Immunity

Moderna has begun testing its vaccine on children as young as 6 months old. A principal investigator in the trial says getting children vaccinated would be "a step getting back to our normal life."

Fed Chair Jerome Powell testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington on Dec. 2, 2020. The Fed issued new economic forecasts on Wednesday at the end of its two-day meeting.

Light At End Of Tunnel? Fed Sees Faster Economic Growth, With Only Modest Inflation

The Federal Reserve has raised its forecast for economic growth, thanks to an improving public health outlook and trillions of dollars in federal spending.

Wells Fargo customers are complaining that they can't see whether they received their stimulus checks because of an online banking outage.

Wells Fargo Site Crashes As Customers Try To See If They've Received Stimulus Payments

The bank blamed "high volumes" for the outage on its online banking site, but said the issue does not affect the actual deposits of the stimulus checks.

Paul Scharre views in his offices in Washington, DC a manipulated video by BuzzFeed with filmmaker Jordan Peele (R on screen) using software to change what is said by former president Barack Obama (L on screen), illustrating how deepfake technology can deceive viewers.

Tom Cruise And TikTok: The Deal With Deepfakes

The short answer: Those TikToks weren't Tom Cruise. They were deepfakes.

The first season of "Through The Cracks," a podcast from WAMU and PRX, investigates whether the disappearance of Relisha Rudd was preventable.

Was Relisha Rudd’s Disappearance Unpreventable? ‘Through The Cracks’ Finds Out.

Officials in Washington, D.C. said that they weren't able to prevent the disappearance of Relisha Rudd. But is that true?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leads a 2019 press conference with fellow Democrats in support of the Violence Against Women Act.

House Renews Violence Against Women Act, But Senate Hurdles Remain

As a senator, President Biden played a key role in passing the landmark 1994 law, which he called "one of my proudest legislative achievements." It wasn't reauthorized in 2018 over partisan disputes.

South Africa Is Emerging From The Pandemic After Being Hit Hard By Coronavirus

South Africa has registered over 1.5 million cases of COVID-19 — one of the worst-affected countries in the world. Cases are now down, restrictions have eased and South Africans are looking forward.

Home Vegetable Gardens Spark Debate Over Local Control And Food Insecurity

Elmhurst resident Nicole Virgil got into home gardening after researching the industrial food process and watching documentaries like “Food Inc.” But...

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