The brain-computer interface wars have begun. For years‚ startups and academic researchers have been experimenting on humans and animals with placing sensors on or near the brain to deepen our understanding of the body’s most mysterious and complicated organ. Last week‚ the world got a peek at how far the research has come‚ when Elon Musk took to X to show off what his other company‚ Neuralink‚ had achieved. Noland Arbaugh‚ who was paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident‚ was...

Abortion-rights supporters are sounding the alarm that conservative Supreme Court justices want to use a long-dormant law to enforce a nationwide abortion ban. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act during oral arguments Tuesday in a case about the constitutionality of the Biden administration’s efforts to expand access to mifepristone.