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...
A lost Viking army which was a "key part" of the creation of England may have been identified by archaeologists.
More than 250 skeletons found at St Wystan's church, Repton, Derbyshire, have been dated to the 9th Century.
Chronicles state a "large heathen army" began to hack its way across England...
In the fourth quarter, the U.S. economy grew at an annualized pace of just 2.6 percent. The results missed the financial market’s estimate of 2.9 percent and were well below the second and third quarters’ impressive growth rates of 3.1 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively.
So, have the wheels already...
