Drug overdoses have reached epidemic levels in the United States where they are the leading cause of injury deaths, surpassing car accidents and gunshots, the…

Energy drinks have grown in popularity for many Americans, but there is growing concern about the health risks of consuming them in large quantities. Because…

Ten months ago, on December 28, 2014, a ceremony in Kabul officially marked the conclusion of America’s very long war in Afghanistan. President Obama called that day…

Brussels – By the end of today, all 19 government requests for bans of GM crop cultivation are expected to go unchallenged by biotech companies,…

Ahead of a meeting scheduled between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama and their speeches to the United Nations General Assembly in…

These are the facts. At some point, someone somewhere in the US government had an amazing idea: why not build a compressed natural gas (CNG)…

Mingling among the doctors, nurses and activists at the single payer conferences in Chicago this weekend was one Richard Master. Master is the owner and…

America, chief executive pay is now 300 times more than the average worker. That’s a high enough ratio that presidential candidates are taking note on…

What have governments learnt from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one…

An ambitious project is being launched to drill deep into the Earth’s crust to harness super-heated “dragon water” that would generate massive quantities of renewable…

There is no doubt that the pace of technological development we’ve seen in recent years has been both amazing, and frightening. It’s certainly made our…

'What we call the eternal ice of Antarctica unfortunately turns out not to be eternal at all,' says lead author of new study A new…