Lack of vitamin D puts healthy people at greater risk for diabetes, findings by epidemiologists from UCSD and Seoul National University suggests.
A cohort study of 903 healthy adults with no history of either prediabetes or diabetes measured the vitamin D levels of the participants in the blood, as well...
A giant volcano lies beneath Yellowstone National Park and the heat it generates powers all the hot springs and geysers in the area, but where does this heat come from?
Yellowstone Hotspot
Scientists describe Yellowstone as a hotspot marked by anomalously high temperature. The intense heat produced by this hotspot is...
The U.S. Commerce Department has granted ZTE Corp’s (000063.SZ) (0763.HK) request to submit more evidence after the agency banned American companies from selling to the Chinese technology firm, a senior Commerce official said on Saturday.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, or BIS, this week banned American...
San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reportedly closed an account opened by whistleblowing site Wikileaks for its online store, citing violations of its Terms of Service.
The Wikileaks Shop is the whistleblower site’s merchandise outlet, selling shirts, phone cases, coffee mugs, posters, and other branded paraphernalia. Users can pay for...
Antibiotic treatment with ertapenem (Invanz, Merck Sharp & Dohme) has been successful in the case of a man from the United Kingdom who acquired a strain of "very resistant gonorrhea" while on vacation in Southeast Asia.
Public Health England (PHE) has been investigating the infection, which was believed to be...
A study published Thursday confirmed that the cracks identified on Mars's surface last year by the Curiosity rover are indeed evidence of ancient lakes that likely dried up about 3.5 billion years ago. The new study provides further evidence of what the climate on the Red Planet may have...
For those of you keeping track of the scooter saga in San Francisco, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has filed a resolution in opposition of California State Assembly bill 2989. The bill, authored by Assembly Member Heath Flora and sponsored by electric scooter startup Bird, seeks to allow top speeds of...
The checks should be the mail for consumers affected by alleged improper auto loan and mortgage practices at lending giant Wells Fargo.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced a $1 billion settlement with the bank on Friday.
The penalties relate to fees...
Federal advisers voted Thursday to recommend approval of the first prescription cannabidiol medicine — to treat rare and severe forms of epilepsy.
The advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted to recommend approval of the drug, known as Epidiolex.
Cannabidiol — CBD for short — is a cannabis...
The full moon on Wednesday, April 20, will not be green, despite several hoax reports making their way through social media.
Maybe you noticed the incorrect day and date relationship in that first sentence. It's not a mistake. In 2016, when we first debunked the green-moon social-media hoax, April 20...
