At least 40 people were killed, and hundreds more injured, in the early hours of Wednesday when a stampede broke out at Maha Kumbh, the world's largest religious festival that every 12 years attracts ...

Early reports suggested at least seven people had died, perhaps more, in a 'stampede' at a Hindu gathering in the city of ...

Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost ...

There is a common perception that weight cycling, often called “yo-yo dieting,” is detrimental to health. But new research ...

Bitcoin plummeted to $97,800 during Asian trading hours, with whales driving prices lower to liquidate overleveraged buyers ...

Is the classic automobile history and the future of mobility purely electric and autonomous? Not necessarily, says Stepan ...

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Planning and building Europe's largest capacity geotechnical centrifuge took seven years. Now, after one and a half years of ...

A new collection system to recycle plastic packaging and drinks cartons has begun in a handful of Swiss municipalities - others should follow in the coming weeks.

Planned bans — such as in Australia — should be replaced with research and resources to educate parents and carers about the best ways to manage their children’s use of social media.

design and construction entity the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as well as South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the World ...