NEW YORK -- Here's some sobering news: A large international study says adults should average no more than one alcoholic drink per day, and that means drinking guidelines in many countries may be far too loose. The study found that people who down more than seven drinks a week can...
Sea turtles use the earth’s magnetic fields to navigate back to the area where they were born decades earlier, according to a new study that used loggerhead genetics to investigate their travels. After swimming for years in a giant loop from nesting grounds in North Carolina and Florida to North...
California toy mogul Isaac Larian submitted a $675-million bid Friday to buy 274 Toys R Us stores in the United States — and another $215 million to acquire 82 stores in Canada. The bid came a little more than three weeks after Larian launched a $1-billion GoFundMe campaign to save...
General Electric Co. (GE) released restated earnings for 2016 and 2017 after the bell on Friday, April 13, lowering the earnings per shares for those two years by 30 cents. Restated EPS will be lower by 13 cents for 2016 and 17 cents for 2017, relatively in-line with previous estimates...
We don't want to sound ungrateful for everything our immune system does for us, but as people suffering from food allergies can attest, it can be a little overzealous at times. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to retrain the immune system to ignore...
Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth. Those are among the items...
It must make an offer of £10.75 per share in cash if it completes its Fox takeover, unless by then Fox has acquired 100 percent of Sky or any third party has acquired more than 50 percent of Sky, a U.K. regulator says. The U.K. Takeover Panel on Thursday ruled...
Nostalgia hasn't translated into dollars in a long-shot effort to crowdfund a future for Toys R Us. Neither did efforts to recruit other toy makers. A campaign led by a billionaire toy executive who pledged $200 million with other investors in hopes of saving part of the bankrupt chain has...
If you give a mouse a running wheel, it will run. But it may not burn many additional calories, because it will also start to move differently when it is not on the wheel, according to an interesting new study of the behaviors and metabolisms of exercising mice. The study, published...
Neutron stars are the most dense form of matter in our Universe (black holes cram more stuff into a smaller space, and it's not clear if that stuff is still "matter"). A neutron star is produced by the collapse of a stellar core, which crams a bit more mass...
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