Understanding these risks is the first step toward creating a cleaner, safer future. Researchers make alarming new discovery while investigating side effects of cigarettes — here's what they found ...

A medical school student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is hoping to change the way restaurants prepare your food in the U.S. For Joshua Khorsandi, it’s all about reducing the number of ...

Designed so that fingers cannot get to the blades, these knives will safely cut through cardboard, tape, strapping, shrink or plastic wrap or a variety of other packing materials. Because these ...

Kid Rock, who performed Sunday night at Trump's pre-inauguration rally, was photographed taking selfies with fans, throwing back a drink or two and smoking a cigar. The country music star ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

Opinion "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in ...

Two asylum seekers "armed with wire cutters" have been sentenced after attempting to steal designer items from John Lewis at a shopping centre in Kent. Frans Epentrius, 29, and Tobias Iileka, 33, were ...

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These are just some of the A-list comedy stars who once auditioned for “Saturday Night Live” and did not make the cut. Their audition tapes were unveiled in the first episode of “SNL50 ...

But this time, the urban landscape is different: Modern homes are full of plastic, turning house fires into chemical-laced infernos that burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than their predecessors.

More than 100 nations supported a draft to cut the 400 million tonnes of plastic produced annually and phase out certain chemicals and single-use plastics. But oil-producing countries like Saudi ...

Despite a largely rank-and-file field, there were several notable PGA Tour names who missed the cut at this week's Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club. While the leaders are hovering around ...