Moderna is suing Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging they infringed on patents for the mRNA technology behind the Covid vaccines. / NBC News

Following the fall of Roe, trigger laws took effect yesterday in Idaho, Tennessee, and Texas, banning abortion in those states. / CNN

Unaccompanied immigrant children who are in US custody and want to end a pregnancy are being transported to states where the procedure is still legal. / BuzzFeed News

Google will now label whether a healthcare facility "provides abortions" or "might not provide abortions." / TechCrunch

Facebook and Twitter remove a propaganda operation targeting Russia, China, and Iran that—in what may be a first—pushed pro-America sentiment. / Motherboard

After six months of heavy losses in Ukraine, Putin orders an increase in Russia's military forces—137,000 troops will be added by the end of the year. / Associated Press

How reducing our dependence on fossil fuels will mean changing how—and specifically what time of day—we use electricity. / Austin Vernon

"In the US, extended extreme heat and droughts are now twice as likely to coincide as in the 1960s and 1970s." / Bloomberg

New evidence supports the theory that at seven million years old, a set of human fossils found in Africa are our earliest known ancestor. / Associated Press

See also: An 82-foot-long dinosaur skeleton is discovered in a backyard in Portugal. / Sky News

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A new movie about Standing Rock trades Indigenous people for white characters absorbed with white guilt. / Grist

"He found the name during a martini-fueled lunch." The inventor of the Trapper Keeper, E. Bryant Crutchfield, dies at 85. / The New York Times

See also: An extensive history of the Trapper Keeper. / Mental Floss

In a new medical trial, a patient will grow a second liver in their body. / MIT Technology Review

See also: "Researchers engineer novel material capable of 'thinking.'" / Penn State

Liquid crystal computers aren't dissimilar to cauldrons—"pools that can model the future or offer visions of other worlds." / BLDGBLOG

Composed of thousands of individual images, a stunningly detailed, high-resolution photo of the moon. / The Morning News

A vast database of plastic bread tags. / Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group