In the high seas off west Africa, a fisherman on a Chinese longline tuna vessel cuts the fins off a live shark before throwing it back in the water to suffocate and drown. Greenpeace observers off ...

In the high seas off west Africa, a fisherman on a Chinese longline tuna vessel cuts the fins off a live shark before throwing it back in the water to suffocate and drown.Its lucrative appendages will ...

On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to make daylight savings permanent. The Sunshine Protection ...

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: "silly sprinklers," whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways ...

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

With a reverse mortgage, people aged 55 and older can tap their home equity for cash. In most cases, a reverse mortgage is ...

A growing number of seniors are taking out reverse mortgages to access cash they can use for anything — from a luxury retirement vacation to basic life expenses. It's an appealing way of getting extra ...

A routing number is a nine-digit code used to identify a financial institution in the United States. Banks use routing numbers to direct the exchange of funds to and from one another. You can ...

Eleven hot days and nights heated up many people's homes so much that cooling off and getting a good night's sleep were out ...