More than eight of ten workers -- 85 percent -- rate workplace safety first in importance among labor standards, even ahead of family and maternity leave, minimum wage, paid sick days, overtime pay and the right to join a union, according to a new study. Despite widespread public concern about ...

University of Illinois researchers recently discovered that feeding co-products and cornstalk residue in the winter can save cow-calf producers up to $1 per day per cow as compared to feeding hay.Feed costs continue to be the number one detriment to profitability in cow-calf operations. With feed comprising 60 percent of ...

Thousands of vehicles remained bogged down on Monday in a 62-mile traffic jam that has lasted nine days on a highway leading into Beijing, underscoring China’s struggle to manage its rapid growth.  Traffic slowed to a crawl on the Beijing-Tibet expressway on August 14 due to a surge in traffic ...

NASA will host media in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Houston on Tuesday, Aug. 31, for a behind-the-scenes look at the agency's major airborne campaign studying Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico hurricanes. The campaign, called the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission, or GRIP, starts next week.Scientists will spend six ...

A study on the effect of global warming on African ape survival suggests that a warming climate may cause apes to run ‘out of time’. The research reveals that rising temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns have strong effects on ape behavior, distribution and survival, pushing them even further to ...

Ensuring the optimum radiation dose on the same day as the brachytherapy implant in prostate cancer treatment manages to control the illness in about 95% of the cases. This is the result of research undertaken at the University Hospital of Navarre

Father's Day is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and it all began when a young woman wanted to honor her dad.

By day 57 (June 15), if all the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico had been used for fuel, it could have powered 68,000 cars, 6,100 trucks, and 3,100 ships for a full year, according to a professor.

Image Caption: A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico June 9. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer First Class John Masson.

Individuals who have poor oral hygiene have an increased risk of heart disease compared to those who brush their teeth twice a day, finds new research.

On Memorial Day, when the U.S. honors its war dead, a whole new set of rules govern raising and lowering of the American flag.

Women who drink two large glasses of milk a day after their weight-lifting routine gained more muscle and lost more fat compared to women who drank sugar-based energy drinks, a study has found.