Last Friday, two Russian cosmonauts spent over eight hours on a space walk outside the International Space Station (ISS) to do repairs. To keep them safe, the pair were tethered to the ISS exterior, but Russian space scientists have long dreamed of implementing a more liberating orbital apparatus—a “space...
Monday’s rout on Wall Street frayed investors’ nerves, but it is not enough to knock the Federal Reserve off course from its intended path to further raise interest rates in 2018 as the economy continues to hum along, analysts say.
The worldwide market sell-off in equities wiped out $4 trillion...
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday intensified its warnings about kratom, saying new research provides strong evidence that the unregulated botanical substance has “opioid properties” and is associated with 44 deaths.
“We feel confident in calling compounds found in kratom, opioids,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first Falcon Heavy rocket built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX soared on its maiden voyage today (Feb. 6) — a historic test flight that also sent a car toward Mars and included two confirmed booster landings.
Billed as the world's most powerful booster since...
There is mounting evidence the food on your plate can alter cancer's growth and spread, say Cambridge scientists.
Animal research, published in the journal Nature, showed breast tumours struggled without the dietary nutrient asparagine.
It is found in the foodies' favourite asparagus, as well as poultry, seafood and many other foods.
In...
Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 on Monday to its lowest in more than two months.
The digital currency fell to a low of $6,511.52, its lowest since mid November, according to CoinDesk, whose bitcoin price index tracks prices from four major exchanges.
With that Monday decline, bitcoin has now lost more than 50...
Kroger will sell nearly 800 convenience stores to British gas station operator EG Group for $2.15 billion, the U.S. supermarket chain said on Monday, as it sharpens focus on its mainstay grocery business amid a brutal price war.
Kroger said it plans to use proceeds from the sale to buy...
The truth is out there. And past that is a cluster of planets 3.8 billion light-years away, a recent discovery that if confirmed could extend the boundary of what we know about the universe.
Using data from a NASA X-ray laboratory in space, Xinyu Dai, an astrophysicist and professor at...
If you smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol daily, you may want to consider letting your tea cool before you enjoy it. Drinking tea while it's too hot could increase your risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests.
In the study, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, drinking...
The FAA has launched an investigation after a drone had an apparent close call with a jet near McCarran International Airport.
Video circulating online shows the drone hovering as what appears to be a Frontier Airlines jet flies almost directly beneath it.
It's not clear who shot the footage or when...
