Category : science

How Surviving Breast Cancer Inspired Sandra Lee to Make it Easier for Women to Get Mammograms

The television star believes all women should have access to life-saving screenings.

First flights for SpaceX and Boeing space taxis face further delays, NASA says

NASA says the flight test schedule for space taxis designed by SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station has been stretched out further, as expected. And it wouldn't be surprising if additional postponement...

Tiny satellites fall silent after proving new tech at Mars

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two tiny satellites have fallen silent hundreds of millions of miles away, after proving new technology at Mars.

This one health trend is increasing millennials' risks for cancer

A study led by the American Cancer Society finds cancers linked to obesity have risen among millennials in the United States.

Trump’s State of the Union fails to mention the state of the planet: Hot and getting hotter

President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night clocked in at 82 minutes, the third-longest in U.S. history. Not once did he mention climate change.

The Original NSX Wasn't Supposed to Get a VTEC Engine

The prototype wasn't designed to fit an engine with Honda's then-new tech. But the president of the company made it happen.

Patient being tested for Ebola at US hospital

A patient is being tested for the rare and deadly Ebola virus in a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia clinic said it had ordered the test out of an “abundance of caution”, without providing information about the patient or their prognosis....

2018 officially ranks as the 4th hottest year on record for Earth

Climate experts from NOAA and NASA released new data on the global temperatures for 2018 and the most important climate trends of the year on Wednesday, Feb. 6.

Early Version of Ocasio-Cortez Green New Deal Touts Clean Power

Instead, the draft of the much anticipated resolution being crafted by Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York representative, and Ed Markey, a Massachusetts senator, calls for 100 percent power from “clean, renewable and zero emission energy...

Shutterfly Analysts Weigh Fate as Forecast Miss Sinks Shares

Bulls on the stock such as KeyBanc see the formation of a strategic review board providing “valuation support.” On the other side, bears like Goldman Sachs cautioned that results continue to be hampered by a decline in its core revenue and increased...

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to land on asteroid on Feb 22

A Japanese probe sent to examine an asteroid in order to shed light on the origins of the solar system is expected to land on the rock later this month, officials said Wednesday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the Hayabusa2 probe...

Venezuela sold 73 tonnes of gold to Turkey, UAE last year: legislator

Of that total, Abu Dhabi investment firm Noor Capital bought the largest amount, 27.3 tonnes of gold, opposition legislator Carlos Paparoni told a news conference, without providing evidence. Paparoni also said a Turkish firm bought 23.9 tonnes of g...

Globalization Helped Make Stripe a $23 Billion Company. Here’s What Comes Next

“There are more headwinds to global economic integration than there were any time in the past 20 years,” Collison said. Stripe builds software and payment infrastructure that helps businesses accept money online and across borders. Part of the wage...

Humans Are Eating Most of Earth's Largest Animals to Extinction

It's hard to argue that the world is not made more interesting by singing whales the size of school buses, dinosaur-footed bird monsters that can leap clean over your head or slimy, cannibal salamanders that grow as large as crocodiles. Giant an...

2018 Fourth Hottest Year On Record, Says NASA

NASA declared Wednesday that 2018 was the fourth-hottest year in 139 years of

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