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The highly-anticipated summer blockbuster film Star Trek earned a whopping $76.5 million dollars in its opening weekend at the box office. Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris talks about its big splash and spotlights other big productions slated for Summer 2009.

Reporting in Science Translational Medicine, researchers write that the bacteria in yogurt affect people's digestion--but not by repopulating gut flora. Microbiologist Jeffrey Gordon talks about these findings and the future of using bacteria as therapy for digestive disorders such as diarrhea.

A new investigative report details sexual misconduct and verbal abuse by coaches in the league – and a lack of action by those in charge to address problems, despite years of players' complaints.

A tech meltdown left workers at airlines, banks and hospitals staring at the dreaded “blue screen of death” as their computers went inert in what is being described as a historic outage.

Students are increasingly using AI tools to help with — and do — their homework. Here's how older online study services, students and professors are adapting.

The federal government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to boost American production of medical gloves, but some companies say it's not enough when imported gloves have gotten cheaper.

Clarence Reid was a successful Miami singer-songwriter and producer, but his raunchy alter ego influenced rappers, gave Weird Al purpose and created a unique (and uniquely profane) musical legacy.

A spate of alleged wrongdoing has implications for a narrowly-divided Congress, as well as the public's perception of how the institution responds to accusations of corruption and sexual misconduct.

The agency and Novo Nordisk, which makes Ozempic, said Monday that they had learned about "several hundred units" of the drug that made it onto the market outside the company's approved supply chain.

Actor Jonathan Pryce is playing the Jewish moneylender in a new touring production of The Merchant of Venice that reimagines Shakespeare's supposedly-comic villain as a tragic and universal figure.

The senators say products such as Google Search and YouTube may "perpetuate racist stereotypes" and the tech giant may not be a safe workplace for Black employees.

http://66.225.205.104/GC20111021.mp3The world's largest furniture market gets underway Saturday in High Point, NC. It's the industry's showpiece event…

The Fair Labor Association has released a report documenting improvements in working conditions at three huge factories in China that make some of Apple's most popular products — like the iPhone and the iPad. The factories are owned and run by Foxcon, and they employee hundreds of thousands of workers.

The "iPad mini" will directly compete with similar tablets made by Amazon and Google. It is the first new product released under the leadership of Tim Cook.

At a panel discussion attended by Vladimir Putin, a man got up to thank the Russian president for the ban on EU food imports, which he credited for helping his local cheese business to flourish.

Even as the Supreme Court takes up the issue of emergency contraception coverage, a new study suggests the most popular form of the drug might not work for most American women. It seems one formulation of the popular drug loses effectiveness in women who are obese or who weigh over a certain amount.

The Great Drought of 2012 dominated headlines this summer, but so far, it has not had a major impact on the prices of food on your holiday table, except the dairy products. That prime rib is more expensive for other reasons.

Samsung isn't confirming reports it has halted production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7 phones. Samsung recalled the phones after some of them caught fire. It said customers could replace their phones with new ones. But now some of the replacement phones are having similar problems.

The new play, about the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers, digs deep into the company's history — beginning with the original brothers, Bavarian immigrants who opened a store in Alabama in the 1840s.

Faced with criticism and ridicule, the New York Yankees have yanked a sign touting a "Craft Beer Destination" stand at their stadium, after beer fans noted that all the products are from MillerCoors. At other ballparks, genuine craft beer is easy to find.