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If you wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker, you probably already have access to a steady stream of data about your heart health. Beyond basic heart rate monitoring, smartwatches and fitness...

While just about every other document is accessible online, a lost passport is one of the last analog emergencies that can derail an international trip. Here’s a guide to replacing a lost...

It’s set to be another scorching summer, with extreme and prolonged heat waves forecast across many parts of the United States and Europe. The stifling conditions could impact millions of...

Smoke in the cabin. A tire blowout. A cracked windshield. No shortage of problems can affect a flight, fueling traveler anxiety and contributing to thousands of daily delays and cancellations around...

Matthew Campen, a toxicologist at the University of New Mexico, wasn’t surprised when his team found microplastics in human testicles during a new study. The tiny particles had already been found in...

Ripe, creamy avocados are great on toast, salads and burgers, or just sprinkled with salt. Plus, they’re healthy — but how healthy? “Avocados are no regular fruits,” said Dr. Frank Hu, a...

More than a decade ago, executives at Boeing made a pivotal decision: To keep up with the company’s main rival, Airbus, they gave up on the idea of developing a new airplane and raced to update the...

SAN FRANCISCO Nearly two years after OpenAI ignited a race to add generative artificial intelligence into products, Apple jumped into the competition Monday, as it revealed plans to bring the...

Shopping center landlords have found themselves in a wholly unfamiliar position: For the first time in 20 years, demand for retail space outstrips supply. That demand has soared recently and, after...

SEOUL, South Korea — For the first time, workers at Samsung, the conglomerate that dominates the South Korean economy, went on strike Friday. The action comes as Samsung Electronics fights to...

NEW DELHI — Before the Indian election results emerged this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was widely viewed as a charismatic and popular strongman celebrated by the business world for elevating...

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The gold market is a graveyard of rubble and dog-eaten corpses. The state TV station became a torture chamber. The national film archive was blown open in battle, its treasures now...

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark was attacked in a busy square in Copenhagen on Friday evening in an assault that left her “shaken,” her office said, though she was able to walk away....

KHARTOUM, Sudan: The gold market is a graveyard of rubble and dog-eaten corpses. The state TV station became a torture chamber. The national film archive was blown open in battle.Artillery shells soar...

Alex Lawrence, a dealer in Salt Lake City who specializes in used electric vehicles, has seen a change over the past year in the kinds of customers who are coming into his showroom. They used to be...

NEW DELHI — Suddenly, the aura of invincibility around Narendra Modi has been shattered. In an Indian election in which his party’s slogan had promised a landslide victory and Modi even...

High-intensity workouts are designed to be hard. The whole point of repeatedly going all out for 30 seconds or a minute at a time is to get the maximum cardiovascular exercise in the least amount of...

ONDON — When officials from many of the world’s biggest oil-producing countries meet Sunday, their menu of options for managing the market may be limited. Over the past two years, the group...

When Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced last year that his company would release an artificial intelligence system, Jeffrey Emanuel had reservations. Emanuel, a part-time hacker and...

JACOBABAD, Pakistan — As South Asia bakes under a blistering heat wave, life-or-death decisions arrive with the midday sun. Abideen Khan and his 10-year-old son need every penny of the $3.50 a...