Ethereum jumps 10% amid worries about bitcoin in a wild day for digital currencies

Digital currency ethereum climbed Monday to a near two-month high amid renewed uncertainty about the future of bitcoin. Ethereum traded about 10 percent higher near $330 Monday afternoon, after earlier rising 15 percent to $347.05, its highest since June 23, according...

The way airlines board planes affects how easily bugs are spread among passengers

IT IS an often-heard office conversation. Someone returns from a trip with a nasty bug, and colleagues say he must have caught it from a germ-ridden plane. It is not unusual to come come down with something nasty after flying. And as a fellow Gulliver reported last...