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Volkswagen will pay more than $15 billion to atone for its diesel cheating scandal in the United States. The post VW's Gonna Drop $15B to Clean Up Its Diesel Mess in the US appeared first on WIRED.

Patients suffering from dementia or cancers may receive more end-of-life care compared with people dying from other diseases. Findings suggest that illness type may dictate the quality of care dying patients receive.

Pepsi replaced aspartame in its Diet Pepsi last year due to the sweetener's cancer link. What prompted the beverage company to reintroduce the controversial ingredient?

A UNICEF report has found that around 69 million children will die from preventable causes by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed. Half of the deaths could occur in sub-Saharan Africa communities before the children ...

Leading pediatrician group in the United States urges doctors to include suicide risks screenings during routine health checks among teenagers. The recommendation follows the recent information that suicide is now the se...

Regularly using your smartphone in the dark may result in a condition called 'transient smartphone blindness,' new research suggests. Here's what you need to know about it.

Every month, millions of women across the world suffer from premenstrual symptoms such as cramps, mood changes and bloating. A new research suggested that chronic inflammation may be to blame for the condition.

Casio's WSD-F10 includes unique features like an altimeter, barometer, and compass, along with Android Wear, but do the outdoor features justify the $500 price? The post Casio Smart Outdoor Watch WSD-F10 review appeared ...

The United States, Canada, and Mexico are poised to announce an ambitious new energy pledge that would see 50 percent of North American electricity drawn from clean sources by 2025.

Keeping the cloud humming requires more than twice the power generated by all the solar panels in America.

Astronomers compared data (and notes, we'd like to imagine) on a "peculiar" source of radio waves, concluding that what was once thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system, made up of a low-ma...

A research team from the Mayo Clinic has shown that text messaging changes the rhythm of brain wave patterns in a way that's never seen before. The discovery shows that smartphones are literally altering the way our mind...

The media often imply that the goal of the hunt for extrasolar planets is to find a rocky planet about the size of Earth orbiting a star like the sun at a distance that would allow liquid water to persist on its surface....

While we've been hearing a lot about 3D-printed structures, this two-storey villa located in Beijing, China, is impressive if it lives up to its claims. The 400-square-metre house, with walls as thick as 2.5 metres, was ...

In Southeast Asia and fancy a dip by a waterfall? You may want to watch out for this vicious-looking centipede, the first of its species known to be amphibious.

Scientists describe how combining engineered anthrax toxin proteins and existing chemotherapy drugs could potentially yield a therapy to reduce or eliminate cancerous tumors. The findings, they note, are based on testing...

A mini-me version of SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 rocket attempts a landing on a barge in a pool, and it's a thing of beauty.

Earlier this month, we had a chance to try the first story mode Capcom has ever put into a Street Fighter game. It's a free update for Street Fighter V owners, but there was one detail missing: a release date. Now, we kn...

A strange form of hydrogen likely lies between the gaseous hydrogen in the clouds of gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter and the liquid-metal hydrogen found in these planets' cores, according to a new study.

(Phys.org)--A scientist who has dedicated a significant portion of his life to proving or disproving the notion that humans have an ability to detect and respond to Earth's magnetic field has given a talk at this year's ...

Researchers at Radboud University, ASTRON and the Delft company Innovative Solutions in Space (ISIS) are to develop a new instrument that will be onboard the Chinese Chang'e4 satellite that will be placed in an orbit beh...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the universe was a chaos of collapsing gas and spinning debris....