A team of New York-based researchers have presented new findings showing that firefighters who responded to the chaotic scene of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attack are twice as likely than the average person to suffer from a condition that can lead to multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer.
China, the world’s most prolific emitter of greenhouse gases, is working on ways to curb its impact on the global climate. Given that as much as 70% of the nation’s energy comes from coal-fired plants, reducing carbon dioxide emissions will require massive investment into new energy technologies. The good news for China: the economic gains for the country might vastly outweigh that effort’s initial costs.
It doesn’t matter where you live, what your gender is, or how old you are—regularly sliding into a pair of running shoes means your risk for developing depression is lower than if you never exercise.
A major US consumer watchdog organization is doubling down on its warning that Americans should avoid eating all romaine lettuce.
If you’re taking vitamin D and calcium supplements to maintain strong bones and prevent fractures, it might be for naught.
One day, long after the Earth has fried and the last remaining super-rich humans are floating in low-gravity spaceships or living on Mars, an astronaut will likely turn to another and ask, “So, do you want to go to SoulCycle?”
The evidence that ketamine can curb the symptoms of severe depression is starting to pile up. New findings on the clinical efficacy of the well-known party drug may pave the way for it to move out of the club and into the doctor’s office.
There’s a line that stretches down North America, singeing into the continent a border that separates an arid west from a humid east. And it’s on the move.
Among American fast food chains, White Castle occupies a special place in US culture. It has been the subject of a feature film, and Time magazine once called its slider “the most influential burger of all time.”
The entire American beef industry is worried about Silicon Valley’s cell-cultured meat companies, and most want to take down the tech interlopers. But the industry is divided over how to do it.
The world has been warming for at least two centuries, and it’s turning Antarctica into a veritable snow globe.
Welcome to Aurora Station, a luxurious horse pill-shaped space hotel where you’ll have the privilege of spending 12 days with five other people in the middle of nowhere.
Since the revelation that Facebook lost control of the data of as many as 87 million users through Trump political consultant Cambridge Analytica, data privacy advocates have called for greater regulation. The way to regulate Facebook, however, isn’t to lobby for a federal change in data privacy laws.
A judge in California ruled this week (March 29) to back a 1986 law that requires coffee companies, distributors, and retailers to warn consumers when a carcinogenic chemical is in their product. The businesses—which may appeal the ruling—argue their products are safe and that removing the chemical would affect taste.
For the first time in thousands of years, the power of modern technology may pave the way for kosher Jews to taste pork.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today confirmed media reports that it is investigating Facebook, and whether the company violated a 2011 agreement over how it shares its users’ data.
Through the years scientists have gleaned that obesity can impact a person’s ability to taste, but until recently it’s been unclear why.
Drugs are so prevalent in some cultures it’s now common to find traces of cocaine and heroin clinging to our fingertips—even those of us who’ve never used them.
Silicon Valley operates in a regulatory Wild West. But with repeated and high-profile data breaches piling up, its days of unchecked authority might be numbered.
It’s a past sin that won’t go away, and it’s about to make Facebook’s relationship with Washington far more complicated.
The imagery is intense: A sun seemingly stamped from the sky, acid rain leaking into homes, and widespread famine as the land sank into the sea. These are accounts of the weather around 940 CE, shortly after volcanic activity in Iceland triggered a massive lava flood.
Update: This article was updated with the latest death toll.
For a third year in a row, a majority of American adults are exercising as much as their government recommends. But that does not appear to be curbing the nation’s obesity rate, which in 2017 reached an all-time high.
Researchers in southern Africa have pieced together an explanation to the mystery of why so many endangered vultures test positive for lead poisoning.
