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After a Complicated Legal Past, AI Set Her Free

At the turn of the millennium, during her teens and early twenties, Heather Chase was addicted to methamphetamine. To fund her addiction, she broke into cars and homes and forged checks, leading to several arrests and a year in jail. But she got sober in 2004 after attending a court-ordered recovery program in Salt Lake City. She moved on, ultimately graduating college in 2014 and earning a master’s degree in 2015. Today, she runs the same nonprofit recovery center she attended, called the Hav

FDA Rehires Controversial Biologics Chief Just Days After Trump Fired Him

The circus was performing at the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, apparently. The FDA has hired Vinay Prasad to oversee the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research—less than two weeks after he left that same role. Endpoints News was the first to report on Prasad’s rehiring on Saturday. He was initially reportedly fired by President Donald Trump himself, following growing pressure from Laura Loomer and other conservative voices who criticized him over the agency’s regulation of a

Adorable Triassic Reptile Used its Freaky Back Fin to Communicate

Technological advancements have brought us many things. For paleontologists, it’s introduced the ability to probe softer material—skin, feathers, scales, and hair—found on fossilized creatures. And that’s resulting in some strange new findings about long-extinct animals, showing us that they’re even weirder than we imagined. A paper published today in Nature offers a re-analysis of a fossilized Mirasaura grauvogeli, a 247-million-year-old reptile whose defining feature is a feather-like structu