Light is fast, but travels in long wavelengths and interacts weakly with itself. The particles that make up matter are tiny ...

ZEISS Vision Care has agreed to acquire a 10% stake in Ocumeda from Fielmann Group, valuing the company at €100M.

President Donald Trump has taken to social media to show off the "highest quality" gold that he says was used to redecorate the Oval Office and other parts of the White House. Newsweek has contacted ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina's Senate Republicans overcame a roadblock to pass a new bill Monday that would usher in a series of changes to the criminal justice system. House Bill 307 is ...

In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...

David Letterman has come out swinging. The “great grandfather” of late-night television reacted to the news that Jimmy Kimmel Live! was put on pause by ABC after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened ...

FREMONT — Voters within an Alameda County public health care district are being asked this November to approve a parcel tax that supporters of the measure say is needed to keep medical equipment and ...

Californians are voting in a special election Nov. 4 with just one statewide item on the ballot: Proposition 50, a measure to allow newly redrawn congressional maps to take effect for the next three ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

A woman getting a measuring spoon from the drawer that has an oval side and a round side - Grace Cary/Getty Images Debating over which kind of measuring spoon is the "right" one to use ... to be frank ...

The week’s best and worst from Mene Ukueberuwa, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson Boosted by partisan loathing of President Trump and assisted by media toadies, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s clownish ...