Image: markusspiske (Pixabay) Three-quarters of Americans aren’t getting enough exercise, finds a new report published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But some states are doing better that other when it comes to being active. The report comes courtesy of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Researchers looked at five…

Photo: Getty Facebook’s race to prove it’s a good and trustworthy company over the last few months kicked off when it was revealed that a quiz app sold user data to a political firm. Now, a different quiz app is getting some heat. A researcher discovered that a third-party app called NameTests left the data…

Just a few of the screws you have to install while assembling the Broil King Baron S320Photo: Andrew Couts (Gizmodo) Of the four, the Weber clearly felt the sturdiest, with a heavy lid and well-engineered parts that easily fit together. The Fuego, too, is clearly solid in its construction and engineering, which is a big…

Supercentenarian Gertrude Weaver poses for a photo on her 116th birthday. Photo: AP The older we get, the greater our likelihood of dying. Or at least that’s what we thought. New research suggests mortality rates level off after we turn 105, and that no upper limit exists for the human lifespan. It’s an extraordinary conclusion—one…

Photo: Brent Stirton / Staff (Getty) Rivers and streams cover much more of the planet than geologists previously estimated, according to a new study published in Science. In total, this new estimate shows that, excluding land with glaciers, Earth is covered by just under 300,000 square miles (773,000 square kilometers) of rivers and streams. That’s…

Photo: AP The suspect believed to have carried out the shooting at the offices of Annapolis, Maryland newspaper company Capital Gazette that left at least five dead and two injured sued the publication for defamation in 2012. The charges were thrown out by the judge. The shooting suspect was identified as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, according…

In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is reflected in the eye of a man on March 25, 2009 in London, England.Photo: Getty It’s a real challenge to find just about anything that Republicans and Democrats can agree upon in the current political climate, but Pew Research Center managed to do just that.…