People who can’t stop scratching itches may finally have a culprit to blame. In mice (and probably people), a protein called TRPV4 is involved both in starting an itch and stopping it after scratching ...

The itch crept up my back, across my stomach and along my arms and legs. It flared during my morning runs and followed me to the office. It was particularly acute at night. I was covered in marks from ...

Vallejo city officials say they've been informed that the Mare Island Dry Dock will be closing permanently and all workers are being laid off. The City of Vallejo says it was told by Mare Island Dry ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and compressed. Heat generated by these contortions has melted pockets of the moon's ...

IO Biotech has resorted to halving its workforce after the FDA knocked back its plans to seek approval for its cancer vaccine. The therapeutic vaccine, called Cylembio, failed to beat Merck & Co.’s ...

Developers are reporting delays in receiving payouts from itch.io, with some claiming they have waited for over 100 days without payment. "From the start, I’ve written to itch.io support multiple ...

Online game marketplaces itch.io and Valve’s Steam have recently delisted or completely removed more than 20,000 titles from their storefronts, after not-for-profit group Collective Shout pressured ...

Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games, and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content. In a new Developer Update, the ...

On Thursday, indie gaming platform Itch.io began re-indexing some of the adult content it had delisted last month amid pressure from conservative groups and payment processors over its hosting of NSFW ...

Itch.io, the indie gaming store that recently pulled all NSFW games from its site, is beginning the process of “re-indexing” adult games. At the moment, this is only affecting free games, and the site ...

Last week, the typically indie digital-games storefront Itch.io deindexed a majority of not safe for work (NSFW) or adult content. Deindexing doesn't mean that the games are all no longer available, ...