The United Nation's World Toilet Day serves as a reminder that sanitation is one of the planet's greatest unmet challenges.
Twitter, the giant micro-blogging company, announced that it has launched a new, searchable index of every public tweet ever made since the company first launched the popular service in 2006.
Netflix Inc. has backtracked on plans to run a comedy special starring Bill Cosby following new rape allegations against the comedian and actor.
Due to the high demands of the Pacific bluefin tuna for sushi, the fish is now at the verge of extinction, according to the latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species published Monday.
The latest danger to children are energy drinks, according to a new study from the American Heart Association.
The word vape has been named the Oxford English Dictionaries word of the year, beating bae, a term of endearment for a romantic partner, and indyref - used to describe the poll on Scottish independence.
A whopping 8 million Americans have diabetes and are unaware of it and as a result, have not made modifications to their diet, according to a new study released Tuesday.
Encryption is an important element in all technology software and hardware. WhatsApp, the wildly popular messaging app, has partnered with the crypto gurus at Open WhisperSystems to implement strong end-to-end encryption on all WhatsApp text messages.
Babies that are born prematurely has now surpassed individual infectious diseases as the number one cause of death in young children around the world, according to a new study. Premature birth is now the leading cause of death among children under age 5.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday that 172 people on board a cruise ship that arrived in California on Sunday have fallen ill with the highly contagious norovirus while on a monthlong cruise vacation.
Nokia is planning to make a big announcement on Tuesday, according to reports. Following Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division in April of this year, the company has been working on a new project.
Dr Martin Salia, 44, the doctor who caught the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, passed away Monday in a Nebraska hospital.
Tech company Sony has developed an imaging sensor for smartphones that's designed to take photos of objects that move fast such as kids and animals.
Kissing is traditionally an expression of love but in some cases it can lead to health problems as an extended and intimate lip-lock can lead to an exchange of nearly 80 million bacteria, say experts.
Dutch authorities confirmed Sunday that they had found a "highly contagious" form of bird flu at a poultry farm in the central Netherlands.
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