For the first time in its 226-year history, the New York Stock Exchange has named a woman to lead the organization. Stacey Cunningham will succeed Thomas Farley to become the NYSE’s 67th president on Friday, according to Intercontinental Exchange Inc. Cunningham, who started her career at the exchange as a summer intern in 1994, is […]
Eating an egg a day may lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, a study of more than 400,000 adults in China suggests. Daily egg eaters had an 18% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, which manifests as heart attacks and strokes, compared with adults who avoided eggs, according to the research published Monday in […]
Hey bub, you’re going the wrong way. The solar system’s first known “resident” that came from interstellar space — an asteroid orbiting backward around Jupiter — has been discovered, scientists announced Monday. “How the asteroid came to move in this way while sharing Jupiter’s orbit has until now been a mystery,” said Fathi Namouni, lead […]
In 1998, IBM was the biggest American tech company by revenue. Now, some 20 years later, it’s not even among the top 30 companies in the Fortune 500. Today, Fortune released its annual Fortune 500, a list of the 500 largest American companies by sales. Together, the Fortune 500 firms represent more than $1 trillion […]
Tesla and Consumer Reports have a sordid history of squabbling over car reviews, and that’s not about to stop just because the Model 3 is on the road. CR has stopped short of recommending the Model 3 following a handful of complaints, most notably braking. The publication found that the EV only came close to […]
Migraine sufferers across the U.S. have their eyes on a newly approved drug that’s offering hope for reducing the frequency of monthly migraine attacks. On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Aimovig for the preventive treatment of migraines in adults with episodic or chronic migraines. Episodic migraine is when symptoms occur up to […]
Early risers on the US East Coast might get a bit of a show tomorrow morning: private space company Orbital ATK will launch its Antares rocket with a Cygnus spacecraft at 4:39 AM EDT from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The mission is the company’s ninth flight for NASA, and is headed to the […]
Starbucks bathrooms are now open to all — no purchase necessary. The company informed US employees on Friday that people can gather in their cafes and patios even if they don’t buy drinks, and that store bathrooms are available to everyone. “Any person who enters our spaces, including patios, cafes and restrooms, regardless of whether […]
On Saturday night Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a few announcements via Twitter about new options for the Tesla Model 3. Specifically, the CEO said that in July the Model 3 would be available with options for a dual-motor and all-wheel drive. On a normal Model 3, that addition will come at a cost of […]
The FDA has approved the first in a new class of migraine drugs that aim to fight painful migraine headaches before they start. Erenumab (Aimovig) is the first of four new migraine drugs in the pipeline that target calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a molecule that’s produced in nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord. […]
Astronomers have made the most distant ever detection of oxygen. They observed it in a galaxy of stars that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. But what is really fascinating is that this oxygen can only have been produced in an even older group of stars that would have dispersed it when […]
U.S. grocery delivery company Instacart suffered a new setback on Thursday when Kroger Co (KR.N), one of its major U.S. customers, announced a partnership with British automated online grocery service Ocado Group Plc (OCDO.L). Kroger’s deal with Ocado – coming less than a year after Amazon.com (AMZN.O) bought key Instacart partner Whole Foods – puts […]
