American online payments firm PayPal is looking at a bigger payoff from its bets in India. The company, which set up a startup incubator in…

When it comes to tobacco control, India needs all the help it can get. Since 2005, the government has stepped up efforts to raise awareness…

Facebook has acquired a two-month-old app called tbh—as in “to be honest”—which lets people send each other positive feedback through anonymous, quiz-style polls. The app…

1. Murder, incorporated America’s opiate epidemic and overdose scourge is the perfect storm of the worst aspects of America’s most glaring flaws. So maybe it…

The most common sexually transmitted infection is becoming even more widespread in part thanks to the rise in popularity of oral sex. From 2011 to…

It’s been 10 long weeks of 10 straight hurricanes. The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia tore into southwest Ireland today (Oct. 16), the latest storm of…

In space, no one can hear you scream. But maybe they could if you were as loud as the collision of two heavenly bodies, each…

The cause of the California wine country fires is still under investigation, but a California power utility is emerging as a possible culprit. On the…

Across the globe, there are eight companies making headway in producing cell-cultured meats that forego the need for slaughtering live chickens, cows, or pigs. One…

As billed during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump has been playing hardball on trade. He killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade agreement, during his…

In a short YouTube video posted Monday (Oct. 16), security researcher Mathy Vanhoef demonstrated how a hacker could intercept data transmitted from a wireless device—in…

At least two people have died after former Hurricane Ophelia hit Ireland’s west coast this morning (Oct. 16) as a post-tropical storm that turned the…