Planning your future retirement is complicated.  Creating a secure retirement plan requires that you know what you want and then being able to put together what you have to achieve your goals.  While retirement planning is not child’s play, it might be easier if you think about the components of …

Photo: Pond5 Metabolism: We’ve all got one, but some people’s are “faster” or “slower” than others’. And that matters, because the rate at which your body burns calories and converts fuel to energy can also affect how easily you gain or lose weight. It also says a lot about how …

An international team of paleontologists has identified a new teleosaur and named it after Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, frontman of the band Motörhead. A paleoartist’s reconstruction of Lemmysuchus obtusidens. The reconstruction contains details relating to Motörhead, with the pattern on the head based on the band’s Snaggletooth logo. Image credit: Mark …

He broke service for a 2-1 lead in the third set Friday only to hand it back in the next game, but a roar went up when Mannarino wasted a chance to put away a game point and Shapovalov jumped on the chance to break for a 5-4 lead. Federer …

Charles Akeen Watson Junior is a famous NBA player who once played for the University of Tennessee. Mostly known as C.J Watson, the last match he played was for Orlando Magic. For four seasons, Watson played college basketball for Tennessee Volunteers. He earned SEC all-freshman team honours for his freshman …

Here is a guide for how to find lost money — a lost 401k or other unclaimed retirement benefits. Finding a lost 401k or other retirement account is more tedious than treasure hunting,but perhaps just as rewarding. A few years ago, I received a strange notice in the mail: a …

The phone industry may officially have many players, but in the United States its nearly a duopoly between Samsung and Apple. Worldwide, those two companies extract virtually all the profit from the phone market, but that’s a different topic. It can be difficult for other companies to stand out in …

Engineers have developed some truly impressive rockets over the decades, including the Saturn V that sent men to the moon. However, they’ve all been chemical rockets, which need an enormous amount of fuel just to slip the bonds of gravity and reach orbit. As NASA sets its sights on more …

An international team of planetary researchers from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Jilin University, China, has used computer simulations to attempt to solve the mystery of what lies beneath the surfaces of Uranus, Neptune, and extrasolar ‘ice giants.’ Artist’s impression of an extrasolar ‘ice giant.’ Inside our Solar System, …

A wise man once said “The hat mighta had a L V on the back but at the swap meet that ain’t jack,” and now researchers can ensure that the Louis Vuitton or Prada or Coach you bought is the real deal. The system, which essentially learns the difference between …