The United States Federal Reserve has suggested it could print unlimited money. Here’s what that means for Bitcoin. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, said that the Federal Reserve has an “infinite amount of cash” — ...

People are having to use videolinks to say their last goodbyes to dying relatives with Covid-19 because hospitals are curtailing visits to prevent spread of the virus. In a sad scene that is increasingly being played out out across the country, in th ...

A plant disease spread by sap-sucking insects has been devastating olive and fruit orchards across southern Europe, but scientists are inching closer to halting its spread with the help of insect repelling clays, vegetative barriers and genetic analy ...

Canal water in Venice has cleared up without boat traffic. Air pollution in China has plunged amid unprecedented lockdowns. In Thailand and Japan, mobs of monkeys and deer are roaming streets now devoid of tourists. The coronavirus pandemic is shutti ...

At 44KW, a nightclub in Shanghai, life almost feels normal again. Bartenders mix cocktails for patrons leaning against the bar. Groups sit close together without face masks on, talking and sipping their drinks. A young woman pulls down her mask and s ...

Professor Dame Sally Davies, England’s chief medical officer is sounding the alarm on antibiotic resistance, claiming it could kill ten million people per year, effectively wiping out humanity. Plastic pollution and antibiotic use in animal agricultu ...

For men, being overweight is linked to increased odds of sexual activity. But the opposite is true for women, according to new research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. The study examined the relationships between body weight, physical ac ...

Levels of air pollutants and warming gases over some cities and regions are showing significant drops as coronavirus impacts work and travel.Researchers in New York told the BBC their early results showed carbon monoxide mainly from cars had been red ...

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, received a text Wednesday evening that they long feared might come: “We’re writing to let you know that a positive case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was found at our facility today.”

The rich are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis, a study by the University of Leeds of 86 countries claims. The wealthiest tenth of people consume about 20 times more energy overall than the bottom ten, wherever they live. The gulf is g ...

Online enforcers are dragging in hundreds for questioning as an assault on online speech continues. They are a sign how Beijing has given censors a more punitive role.

A new report, from researchers at McMaster University and Ryerson University, has surveyed over 200 participants from a prematurely cancelled basic income experiment that took place in Southern Ontario between 2017 and 2019. The report suggests parti ...

Airline stocks tumbled Thursday after President Donald Trump imposed a 30-day ban on travel from most of Europe, increasing the risk that carriers struggling to cope with fallout from the coronavirus outbreak could run out of cash in the coming weeks ...

The top 20% of American households have gone from making 43% of all US income in 1968 to 52% in 2018, according to the Pew Research Center, and the trend doesn’t look likely to stop any time soon. There are a variety of reasons for the increase. Tax ...

Last spring, a religious organization known as Jehovah's Witnesses subpoenaed Reddit, invoking the DMCA copyright law. They did this in order to learn the real-world identity of one Reddit user, aka, “Darkspliver” – who apparently at some point ...

WWDC 2020 (or Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 to give it its full name) is the next of Apple’s annual software-focused shows. It’s here that we’re likely to get our first official look at iOS 14, alongside various other software updates, but new ...

It’s no surprise that cell phones depreciate fast with the endless volume of yearly releases – Your shiny new smartphone can quickly become outdated! Most consumers rely on trade-ins to minimize the ever-increasing price ticket on the latest smartpho ...

Scientists have proposed a new kind of subatomic particle to explain another particle’s mysterious disintegration. The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark. All are part of the overall family called hadrons. ...

As the world watches the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, epidemiologists are watching simulations of that outbreak on their computers to try to predict what might happen next.

“At this rate, plastic is set to outweigh fish in the ocean by 2050,” the complaint reads.