The University of Missouri’s College of Veterinary Medicine conducted a study that determined your genetics could be to blame for your unwillingness to go to the gym. Researchers Franck W. Booth and Michael D. Roberts placed 50 rats in cages with exercise wheels. They recorded how often the rats used the wheels and sorted them on a spectrum of lazy …

New York’s attorney-general has sent subpoenas to six high-frequency trading firms as its investigation into whether certain traders have an unfair advantage over others widens beyond the stock exchanges. The office of Eric Schneiderman last week sent subpoenas to six trading firms, including Tower Research, Chopper Trading and Jump Trading, a person familiar with the matter said. The identity of …

Canadian police have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him in connection with exploiting the “Heartbleed” bug to steal taxpayer data from a government website, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said. In what appeared to be the first report of an attack using a flaw in software known as OpenSSL, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said this week that …

An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy. The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of …

Rescue boats and helicopters scrambled Wednesday to find almost 300 passengers, including scores of high school students, missing after a ferry sank off the southwest coast of South Korea. Of the 459 people on board, 164 have been rescued, the security ministry said.

General Motors is asking for lawsuit protection from legal claims involving issues before the company’s 2009 bankruptcy. The company filed the motion in a Texas federal court Tuesday, specifically surrounding defective ignition switches that have led GM to recall more than 2-million cars.

NEW DELHI India’s top court on Tuesday issued a landmark verdict recognizing transgender rights as human rights, saying people can identify themselves as a third gender on official documents. The Supreme Court directed the federal and state governments to include transgendered people in all welfare programs for the poor, including education, health care and jobs to help them overcome social …

Kate Moss is an integral part of the Vogue UK family: She’s covered the glossy a whopping 34 times over the last 20 years, and she joined the masthead as a contributing editor in 2013. So, it makes complete sense that she’d take to its cover for the 35th time to debut her new line for Topshop, which hits stores …

Golf Digest has released a video to accompany Paulina Gretzky’s cover story for the magazine’s May issue. The video features Gretzky posing in various athletic outfits, even by the pool showing off some yoga positions. Gretzky is engaged to PGA player Dustin Johnson, but isn’t a player herself — something that had members of the PGA more than a bit …

A research, which took place on Mount Everest, assessed the mechanisms by which low oxygen levels in the body – known as hypoxia – are linked to the development of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when cells fail to respond to insulin in the body. Insulin enables the body to regulate sugar levels. Too much sugar can be toxic and …

The conditions of conjoined twins whom doctors separated last summer have steadily improved and they should be released this week from a Dallas hospital, officials said. Owen and Emmett Ezell should be discharged Wednesday from Medical City Children’s Hospital. They were born in July 2013, joined at the chest.