View photos Bill Quinn surveys the damage to his trailer home from Hurricane Irma at the Seabreeze Trailer Park in Islamorada in the Florida Keys (AFP Photo/SAUL LOEB) More Islamorada (United States) (AFP) – Residents of the Florida Keys ravaged by Hurricane Irma, which has left at least 12 dead […]
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In August, when a former employee sued online-lending platform SoFi for firing him after he reported incidents of harassment, the company quickly rejected his claims. The matter had already been investigated internally and no wrongdoing was found, SoFi said. Unlike the many other accusations of harassment and bad behavior brought […]
A research team discovered that the olive-derived compound oleuropein helps prevent type 2 diabetes.
Researchers recently found new evidence that lends support to an existing theory of how the unusual star emits energy.
The final three members that will round out Expedition 53-54 on the International Space Station are headed to their new home in the sky Tuesday night. Two of those crew members who will be spending five months onboard are NASA astronauts. Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba will be launching […]
The ancient Greeks may have worshiped earthquakes, purposely building temples and other important structures directly above fault lines. But the same natural phenomenon they exalted could have also destroyed them. According to the University of Plymouth, it’s not an entirely new idea that earthquakes played a role in the lives […]
Fifty-five years ago today, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered one of the speeches that defined his legacy, a soaring oratory that laid out the vision and rationale for putting a man on the moon. It marked the beginning of an extraordinary era of U.S. leadership in space that spawned […]
Yelp is accusing Google, its longtime rival in local search, of scraping photographs of local businesses from Yelp and other sites for use in Google search results, violating promises that Google made in 2012 as part of a settlement to end a Federal Trade Commission investigation. In a letter to […]