Vox Media is laying off 6% of its staff, or about 72 employees, as advertising revenue decreased amid the coronavirus quarantines. Most of the layoffs were suspended by the company earlier this year, Chief Executive Jim Bankoff said in an email to employees obtained by CNBC. Vox is eliminating roles …

TOKYO – On Thursday, the Tokyo city government reported a record 286 new cases of coronavirus, the highest number of new cases recorded in a day in the Japanese capital since the COVID-19 pandemic began. As a result, the city government raised its coronavirus alert to “red,” the highest of …

A general report from the federal inspector finds that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and its boss, Seema Verma, violated hiring rules around hiring communications consultants aligned with the Republican Party. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General, in a report released Thursday, found …

With the dizzying increase in coronavirus hospitalizations in several states, the hardest hit counties in Arizona and Texas are preparing for the worst by bringing refrigerated trucks as the morgues fill up. © Go Nakamura / Getty Images Medical staff wearing full PPE pushes a stretcher with a deceased patient …

A graph showing how reducing a material to a thickness of a few nanometers can alter its atomic bonds. Credit: Kapteyn / Murnane Group / JILA Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have used ultrafast ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner …