Sugar speeds up the aging process as much as smoking, according to research conducted at the University of California at San Francisco. The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, surveyed data on over 5,300 healthy Americans from a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

State officials said Tuesday that Asian carp DNA has been found in the Fox River in downtown Green Bay, a discovery that gives scientists the newest genetic evidence of invasive fish in the Lake Michigan basin.

According to a new study, the majority of dietary supplements that get recalled by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still contain banned ingredients at least six months after the recall date. These adulterated dietary supplements could potentially lead to adverse side effects.

Children who drink non-cow’s milk – such as almond, soy, rice and goat’s milk – could have lower blood levels of vitamin D compared to those who drink cow’s milk, a new study has suggested.

Saskatchewan Government Insurance highlighted school zone safety during September’s traffic safety focus. The result was police dolled out 760 tickets to motorists speeding in school zones. According to SGI, law enforcement also issued the following during the month: 1,226 tickets for exceeding the speed limit; 425 tickets for improper or non-seatbelt use; 164 tickets for failing to stop at a …

An international collaboration of more than 70 scientists involved in a project called POLARBEAR say they have detected the universe’s oldest light along with evidence of the first cosmic inflation, which took place in the initial fraction of a second following the Big Bang.

47-year-old Wales man Alan Knight pretended to be in a coma for two years so that he and his wife could swindle their elderly neighbor for upwards of $73,000. How did Knight finally get caught? He went grocery shopping all over the country and used his family’s loyalty card.

Washington resident and former Republican congressional candidate Gavin Seim recently pulled over a police offer in an unmarked police car. The citizen pulled over the officer because he was unlawfully driving an umarked police car during regular patrol duty

A key step on the way to a mandatory Polar Code for ships operating in Arctic and Antarctic waters has been reached with the approval by the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of the environmental provisions in the draft International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (the Polar Code), together with associated draft …

A Florida man had to be hospitalized after he says he found a rodent’s head, most likely a rat, inside a bowl of chili he was eating at Golden Corral, according to WFTX.

Health Canada says more than 200 Canadians have been infected by a virus that has sickened hundreds of thousands of people in the Caribbean and spurred a state of emergency in Jamaica. As of Oct. 1, the agency said Tuesday, 201 Canadians had been infected with chikungunya (CHIK-un-gun-yah), a disease caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes.