Will cities join the growing fur-free movement by luxury fashion brands?
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to ban the sale of fur, becoming the largest city in the U.S. to do so and sending a heartening message to animal advocates around the world. The fur ban goes into...
Whole Foods will host a summit on Tuesday for up to 200 of its suppliers, amid anxiety about how its ongoing business revamp will play out under new owner Amazon.com.
Amazon's $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods last summer shook the grocery industry, spawning worries that the e-commerce giant would...
Scientists in Switzerland dosed test subjects with LSD to investigate how patients with severe mental disorders lose track of where they end and other people begin.
Both LSD and certain mental disorders, most notably schizophrenia, can make it difficult for people to distinguish between themselves and others. And that can...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a conceptual spacecraft to deflect Earth-bound asteroids and evaluated whether it would be able to nudge a massive asteroid - which has a remote chance to hitting Earth in 2135 - off course....
Mark Zuckerberg has handed users one more reason to quit Facebook. Newspaper reports that a UK political consultancy used millions of user profiles creates fresh risks at the social network he founded. People are already spending less time on Facebook. The danger is that members may unfriend it altogether.
Facebook...
The Trump administration announced on Monday that it was broadening sanctions against Venezuela, blacklisting four government officials and banning a digital currency President Nicolás Maduro created last month to circumvent financial sanctions on his economically strapped nation.
The White House said the new measures were intended to send a message...
CACI International, an Arlington-based defense contractor, is making a move to acquire CSRA, a government IT services conglomerate, in a $7.2 billion deal that could set off a Beltway bidding war between a pair of major Washington-area defense contractors.
The potential deal comes a month after General Dynamics said it...
FRB 180309's signal-to-noise ratio stood out for being more than four times more powerful than that of the second-strongest fast radio burst on record.
Astronomers discovered three new fast radio burst signals earlier this month, with one of these signals standing out as the strongest one ever recorded.
According to Science...
Doctors say a stem cell transplant could be a "game changer" for many patients with multiple sclerosis.
Results from an international trial show that it was able to stop the disease and improve symptoms.
It involves wiping out a patient's immune system using cancer drugs and then rebooting it with a...
