This is a story about the importance of good timing.
Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. This excess weight contributes to a variety of health problems. Despite enormous effort over decades, the problem has proved extremely difficult to solve. Biologist Satchin Panda thinks we're missing a key variable: Instead...
The brightness of a star naturally changes throughout its life cycle, but that takes ages and we humans are but a blip on the cosmic timeline. When we see a star’s brightness change, it’s an indication something of cosmological significance is happening. Astronomers have had a hard time figuring...
China's out-of-control Tiangong-1 space lab didn't just host visiting astronauts.
The school-bus-size Tiangong-1, which is predicted to crash back to Earth on Sunday (April 1), plus or minus 36 hours, was designed primarily to help China perfect the docking and rendezvous techniques needed to build a big space station. But...
A computer model built by Goldman Sachs is signaling that a bear market is right around the corner, but some strategists at the investment bank are not listening to their own indicator.
Goldman Sachs' bull/bear indicator is sitting above 70 percent. That level is "normally associated with high risks for...
The world is obsessed with fad diets and weight loss, yet few of us know how a kilogram of fat actually vanishes off the scales.
Even the 150 doctors, dietitians and personal trainers we surveyed shared this surprising gap in their health literacy. The most common misconception by far, was...
When rockets shoot up toward the sky, they don't really go straight up into outer space. Instead, they'll begin to pitch downrange to limit gravity drag and prevent too much stress on the spacecraft.
That's exactly what happened with the Falcon 9 rocket during its Formosat-5 mission in August 2017,...
Elon Musk has sold millions of dollars of branded hats and flamethrowers, and now, he says his Boring Company will sell “interlocking bricks” made from the rock that its tunnel-creating machines excavate from the ground. In other words, think Lego, he says, except giant, heavy, and made of earth.
Musk...
Project management software company Smartsheet revealed in its IPO filing on Monday that Gene Farrell, an executive who joined from public cloud provider Amazon Web Services last year, is receiving more compensation than Smartsheet's own CEO, Mark Mader.
The pay details suggest that for a smaller company, experience at Amazon's...
Solutions to public health problems, such as the opioid crisis and addictions, might be right under our noses.
Recent research has shown cannabis can help curb alcoholism and cocaine addictions. The Daily Mail reports researchers gave rats cannabidiol, otherwise known as CBD.
CBD is a cannabis compound, similar to THC, which...
Sunita Williams wasn't the kind of kid who wanted to be an astronaut when she grew up. She wanted to be a veterinarian. But she managed to achieve the former kid's dream job, anyway.
Williams, 52, has completed two missions to the International Space Station, spending over 11 months orbiting...
