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Mental illness is one of the most common kinds of disability in the U.S. In fact, National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) estimates that annually, around one in five American adults experience mental illness, and one in twenty-five American adults experience severe mental illness. Despite how common they are,...

A new bill in the House of Representatives related to NASA’s funding proposes $10 million a year to search for signs of life out there. A climate denier may be the reason the S-word is back in vogue in Congress. Oh yeah, not that S-word, the other one: SETI. That’s right,...

Robinhood, the free stock trading app, has raised $363 million in a new investment round valuing the company at $5.6 billion. The Series D round, announced Thursday, makes Robinhood the second most valuable private fintech startup in the U.S. after Stripe, the online payments company. Bucking the model of traditional brokerages—which...

Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) on Thursday said a cap on the bank’s growth imposed by regulators after sales practices scandals would hurt earnings less than it thought this year, and forecast 2019 expenses below Wall Street expectations. Analysts were upbeat about the expense outlook, financial targets and lessened fallout...

The keto diet has exploded in popularity, and it's no surprise why — going keto has helped people lose weight, in some cases more than 150 pounds. But the diet, which is high in fat, is also controversial, as dietitians worry about the implications of cutting out an entire...

On the edge of our solar system is a cold, dark region containing asteroids, comets and icy objects, called the Kuiper Belt. It's also the home of oddities called Kuiper Belt Objects. These KBOs present many challenges for astronomers because they're usually harder to study, existing in a particularly dark...

VALLEJO, Calif. — The nation’s largest home builder is betting voice-activated digital assistants and smart devices will become as expected in a new home as garages now are. Lennar announced Wednesday that standard features in its new homes will include built-in Wi-Fi, smart locks, doorbells, thermostats and lights — all...

ZTE Corporation, a Chinese firm that sells millions of phones in the United States, has halted "major operating activities" after a US ban against the company went into effect, according to a new public filing. Some of the company's products, which include smartphones and telecommunications equipment, appeared to no longer...

A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis. Enhanced hair growth is a side-effect of a different drug, cyclosporine A, used to treat autoimmune diseases. And researchers found it also inhibited a protein, SFRP1, that blocks a molecular pathway, WNT, vital for...

Apart from the studies and theories discussed around the world to protect coral reefs, Hawaii officials have decided to put a ban on a certain type of sunscreen manufacturing. In a release, the lawmakers last week announced that they have passed a bill to put a ban on sales...