While walking around a lake shore in Tennessee a local young girl has spotted an artifact which has later been found that it was a 475-million year old. Reports coming from Tennessee informed that the 11-year-old Ryleigh Taylor, living in the east region of the area, was walking along...
California’s economy just made a huge leap.
If the state –with its 39.5 million people – was an independent country, it would have the fifth largest economy in the world, according to new federal figured released on Friday – just surpassing the United Kingdom, which has a population of 65.6...
Sweet. Elon Musk says he's starting a candy company.
The billionaire entrepreneur tweeted Saturday that he is "super, super serious" about starting his own confections enterprise.
"It's going to be amazing," Musk wrote.
It immediately set tongues wagging, with more than 100,000 likes by Saturday evening and Twitter users basically salivating at...
Our bodies have evolved over millions of years to be very efficient at storing energy from excess food as fat deposits, as a key biological survival mechanism for times of food scarcity. Today, when so many of us have an abundance of calorie-rich, high-fat food readily available, the same...
The three major U.S. stock indexes rose more than 1 percent on Friday after weaker-than-expected U.S. wage growth helped to calm investor fears about rising interest rates and inflation, though the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials still posted losses for the week.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) provided the biggest boost as...
SpaceX’s launch team loaded liquid propellants into the company’s first upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the countdown rehearsal culminated in a brief ignition of the launcher’s nine Merlin main engines on the launch pad.
The hold-down test-firing occurred at 7:25...
Seattle is the country’s 18th-largest city, but only New York and Los Angeles have a larger homeless population. In April, the Seattle City Council proposed a “head tax” on employees at big businesses to fund low-income housing and homeless shelters. While there are hundreds of qualifying companies with gross...
Dutch scientists have made yet another advance in embryonic science, creating synthetic embryos (mouse embryos, that is) without the need for sperm or eggs. Down the line, the achievement could have implications for human infertility, too.
Using mouse cells that weren’t gametes (the traditional sex cells), researchers from the MERLN...
NASA is poised to launch its first lander to Mars since 2012, an unmanned spacecraft called InSight that aims to listen for quakes and unravel the mystery of how rocky planets like Earth form.
It is scheduled to launch on Saturday at 7:05 am Eastern time (1105 GMT) from Vandenberg...
