Panama and Paraguay now hold investment-grade status, yet each still faces the challenge of financing major infrastructure in the long term.

It has long been known that our bodies derive energy from sugar. Researchers at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau have ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By ...

DOUBLE Winter Olympics gold medallist Matt Weston says he is planning a shock move into rugby when he retires. The Team GB star, 28, finished at the top of the podium in the men’s individual ...

J.T. Mollner’s next horror project pairs Bad Robot and a kid’s-eye POV monster story, with Brian Duffield on the script and Sony circling worldwide rights. The project’s hook is a classic horror flip ...

Olympic Skeleton is a high adrenaline sliding event which is a combination of speed, navigational skill, and pure daredevil courage. Though the discipline is similar to luge and bobsleigh with ...

Austin Florian, a skeleton racer from Southington, finished the first two heats of Olympic competition in 13th place with a combined time of 1:54.53 at Cortina Sliding Center in Italy Thursday.

Southington native and Olympic skeleton racer Austin Florian set a new start record in the men's skeleton competition Thursday morning. During his second run, Florian was the fastest to accelerate, ...

Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics for “refusing to adhere” to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) athlete expression guidelines ...

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych will not be allowed to wear a helmet commemorating those killed in the war ...

One of the more interesting and more dangerous Olympic events is skeleton. Skeleton involves an athlete sliding down an ice track in a sled. Sounds simple ... except that the athletes go headfirst ...