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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Dead At 91
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91, the country’s state-run TV has announced. Egypt held a military funeral for Mubarak, with current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi briefly leading... More of this article »
Antarctic Heat Wave Sparks Massive Snow Melt
A heat wave in Antarctica melted about 20 percent of an Antarctic island’s snow in only nine days. Images released by NASA showed Eagle Island on the northeastern peninsula of the continent at the start and end of the heat wave.... More of this article »
Flywheel Sports Settles With Peloton Over Patent Infringement
Exercise company Flywheel Sports has settled with competitor Peloton to end a lawsuit that began back in 2018. Peloton sued Flywheel that September claiming corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. As part of the settlement,... More of this article »
SpaceX Embracing Space Tourism With Space Adventures
SpaceX has signed an agreement with space tourism company Space Adventures to potentially use its Crew Dragon spacecraft take space tourists out of Earth’s atmosphere. Those spacecraft are the same ones that will be used by... More of this article »
Cash Becomes Latest Casualty Of Coronavirus
China’s central bank has implemented a new strategy to reduce further spread of the novel coronavirus: deep cleaning and destroying potentially infected cash. According to an announcement from the People’s Bank of China, all... More of this article »
Facebook Releases New App Similar To Pinterest
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has released a new app that some are saying is remarkably similar to Pinterest. The new app is called Hobbi and it is an editor and organizer for hobbies and projects that the user is interested in.... More of this article »
Scientists Analyzing Repeating Radio Signal From Space
Researchers have discovered a repeating radio signal that they have traced to a single source a half-billion light-years away. Researchers looking at data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst... More of this article »
Pete Rose Gets Presidential Support For Reinstatement
Former Cincinnati Reds baseball star Pete Rose has asked once again to be reinstated by Major League Baseball. Rose is petitioning to remove his name from Major League Baseball’s ineligible list and his campaign has the... More of this article »
Antarctic Peninsula Sees Record Breaking Temperatures
It’s not typical for the temperatures in Antarctica to be nearly the same as those in Southern California, but that is what happened in the first week of February. That week, the weather in the Antarctic Peninsula reached a... More of this article »
Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Chinese Drone Deployment
Chinese authorities are now deploying drones to help in the fight against the new coronavirus outbreak. Videos have emerged on the Twitter-like Chinese social media platform Weibo of interactions between citizens and the unmanned... More of this article »
Macy’s Launches New Cost-cutting Effort
Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) is launching a new $1.5-billion cost-cutting plan to revive its business. Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement, “We are taking the organization through significant structural change to lower... More of this article »
New Flavored Vaping Ban Has Big Loophole
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is banning most flavored e-cigarettes, but the ban has a big loophole that some are saying defeats the main purpose of the ban. While the ban only allows menthol and tobacco flavors for refillable cartridge-based... More of this article »
Landmine Use Restrictions Lightened
A ban on the U.S. military’s use of anti-personnel land mines outside of the Korean Peninsula has been lightened by the Trump administration. A new Defense Department policy will be released detailing out how and when U.S. military commanders... More of this article »
Practice Fusion Settles Criminal And Civil Charges
Silicon Valley start-up Practice Fusion has agreed to pay $145 million in fines to resolve criminal and civil charges related to obtaining kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for promoting their products and misrepresenting... More of this article »
Astronauts Fix Space Station’s Antimatter Detector
Spacewalking astronauts finished repairs on a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station this weekend. The spacewalk officially started about 15 minutes late, at 7:04 a.m. EST (1204 GMT) Saturday and concluded... More of this article »
Ancient Viruses Discovered In Glacial Ice
A team of scientists from the United States and China have discovered a multitude of new virus groups in 15,000-year-old Tibetan glacial ice. Their research uncovered 33 groups of virus genuses in the ice cores taken from the... More of this article »
Living Concrete Made From Bacteria And Sand
Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder have created a “living concrete” that can grow and regenerate itself. The concrete, a mixture of gelatin, sand, and cyanobacteria, is a potential breakthrough in the nascent... More of this article »
New York Mets Manager Carlos Beltrán Out Over Sign-Stealing Scandal
Carlos Beltrán is out as manager of the New York Mets after being implicated in a sign-stealing scandal that has rocked Major League Baseball. Commissioner Robert Manfred recently announced findings that the Houston Astros illegally... More of this article »
Visa To Acquire Plaid For $5.3 Billion
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has announced that it is purchasing financial technology company Plaid for $5.3 billion. Visa expects the acquisition to close in three to six months pending regulatory approval. Goldman Sachs was the exclusive... More of this article »
Too Many People Delay Knee Replacement Surgery
With an aging population, more and more Americans are undergoing knee replacement surgery. More than 600,000 knee replacements are done each year in the United States and that number is expected to rise to 1.28 million by 2030,... More of this article »
Chinese Paddlefish Declared Extinct
One of the world’s largest freshwater fish has just been declared extinct. The Chinese paddlefish, or Chinese swordfish, apparently succumbed to the overfishing, habitat fragmentation, and loss of biodiversity in its native... More of this article »
Hackers Take Down Airport Currency Exchanges
The world’s largest foreign currency exchange, Travelex, has been forced offline by a ransomware attack. The London-based currency exchange company immediately took all its systems offline after detecting the software virus... More of this article »
Fake Draft Texts Prompt Warning From Military
The U.S. Army is warning Americans about a wave of “fraudulent text messages” being sent that falsely say that they’ve been drafted into military service. The messages appear to have been sent to individuals nationwide... More of this article »
Colgate To Launch Plaque-detecting Toothbrush
Leading global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) has announced that it will soon be launching its own unique take on improving consumers’ tooth brushing experience. The Colgate Plaqless Pro smart electric... More of this article »
Roasted Vegetables Proven Part Of Ancient Diet
A new paper published by archaeologist Lyn Wadley of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and her colleagues in the journal Science presents rare proof of prehistoric humans’ consumption of carbohydrate-rich... More of this article »
New Year Brings Increased Prescription Drug Prices
Leading drug makers celebrated the New Year by once again raising the list prices of their drugs. The price hikes applied to a range of medications, including blood thinners, cancer therapies, and treatments for respiratory conditions,... More of this article »
Mosquitoes Develop Ability To Resist Toxins With Legs
Mosquitoes that carry malaria are becoming resistant to insecticides that were previously effective at killing them. Now, researchers believe they have identified a new way by which the mosquitoes become insecticide-resistant,... More of this article »
Facebook Buys Cloud Gaming Startup PlayGiga
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has announced its acquisition of PlayGiga, a Madrid-based company that specializes in cloud gaming. A Facebook spokesperson asked to comment on the purchase said, “We’re thrilled to welcome PlayGiga... More of this article »
Robinhood Fined Over Trade Execution Violations
Robinhood Financial has been fined $1.25 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) over what the agency calls “execution violations” tied to customer equity orders, along with other supervisory failures.... More of this article »
World’s Oldest Fossil Forest Discovered In Upstate New York
Scientists have unearthed evidence of the world’s oldest forest in a quarry in the town of Cairo, New York. The fossilized forest, dating back nearly 400 million years, is believed to be 3 million years older than the previous... More of this article »
Two Apples Daily Could Prevent Heart Attack
The classic idiom “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” may be more correct than previously thought. A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that eating two apples a day may help lower high... More of this article »
3-Digit Suicide Prevention Hotline In The Works
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unanimously voted to proceed with a proposal to set up a new hotline for suicide prevention and mental health. The proposal calls for the agency to set up a 3-digit number, similar... More of this article »
Lots of Sleep Associated With Higher Stroke Risk
A new study out of China appears to show that lots of sleep has been associated with an increased risk of having a stroke. The study, conducted by Xiaomin Zhang, MD, PhD, of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan,... More of this article »
Saudi Aramco Now Largest Listed Company In World
Saudi Aramco, which just launched the world’s largest initial public offering (IPO), is now the largest listed company in the world. Aramco’s public debut listed 1.5 percent of its shares on the Saudi Tadawul, which were sold... More of this article »
Russia Banned From International Sports Events For 4 Years
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned Russia from major international sports events for the next four years over a longstanding doping scandal. The sanctions are because of the extensive fabrications WADA investigators... More of this article »
Ford To Make Car Parts Out Of McDonald’s Coffee Waste
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is forming a partnership with McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) to turn waste from coffee production into a new type of plastic. Ford is planning to use the new composite for interior car components and under... More of this article »
Winter Flu Season Is In Full Swing
The U.S. winter flu season is getting an early start this year. Health officials tend to consider a flu season to be officially underway when a significant percentage of U.S. doctor’s office visits are due to flu-like illnesses... More of this article »
Banks Can Treat Hemp Industry Like Normal Companies
United States regulators have clarified that hemp businesses should not be treated with any more suspicion than other bank customers. In a joint statement, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the... More of this article »
U.S. Navy Places Nuclear Submarine Order Worth $22 Billion
The U.S. Navy has announced the awarding of the largest shipbuilding contract in the service’s history. The Navy will spend about $22 billion to purchase nine new nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarines, with an option of... More of this article »
Scientists Find Tiny Puppy Preserved In Ice
Researchers have found a tiny puppy remarkably frozen in time in the permafrost of Siberia. They now believe that the puppy might be the world’s oldest domesticated dog or a halfway creature from the time when some wolves were... More of this article »
Researchers Find Drugs In Donated Blood
Researchers using “pure” human blood serum from various medical suppliers that had been sourced from multiple donors found that all contained caffeine or other drugs when conducting their mass spectrometry research. Biomedical... More of this article »
Life Expectancy Falling For Americans Across The Board
According to a recent study out of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, life expectancy rates in the United States continue to drop across the board. Although earlier research emphasized rising... More of this article »
SpaceX Starship Fails During Test
SpaceX’s Starship rocket prototype suffered considerable damage after experiencing a major failure during scheduled pressurization testing. The Starship Mk-1 prototype partially burst apart during ground tests at the company’s... More of this article »
Scientists Developing Shark-proof Wetsuit
Scientists in Australia are developing a “shark-proof” wetsuit designed to save lives by reducing blood loss and other injuries caused by shark bites. Researchers at Flinders University, Australia, are testing two new lightweight... More of this article »
CDC Issues New Report On Drug-resistant Superbugs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released their latest report on the state of drug-resistant “superbugs” in the United States. The news is not good. According to the report, drug-resistant superbugs... More of this article »
Study Charts Massive Insect Declines Around The World
A new report issued by ecologists at Sussex University shows a devastating decline of insect life around the world. The researchers, carrying out an investigation for the Wildlife Trusts, found that 40 percent of the one million... More of this article »
Concerns Raised Over Army’s TikTok Recruiting
Lawmakers are expressing concerns that the U.S. Army is using the massively popular Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok to recruit young people into the military. The Army launched a social media blitz this... More of this article »
Gender Bias Allegations Swirl Around Apple Card
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) are under fire after allegations of gender bias were levied against the companies by customers who applied for the Apple Card. The Apple Card is branded and marketed... More of this article »