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People Magazine has announced that Adam Levine, front man of the band Maroon 5, is this year's sexiest man alive, and scientists agree that the musician and TV personality has many traits that are widely held to be sexy.

Using a novel realization of a "phonon laser," scientists at PML and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have observed and learned to control a process called mode competition. This process occurs routinely in optical lase...

Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, died in 1855. His brain has been resting at the University of Gottingen for the last 150 years--but under the wrong label. A mix-up that appears to ha...

Several new projects aim to re-invent the condom so that it enhances, or at least perseveres, sexual pleasure.

In the 50 years since John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, conspiracy theories as to who was really behind the assassination have flourished. Here are some of the main theories.

In 2011, studies conducted found that a natural compound called apigenin, which is found in celery, parsley, and apples, could reduce the incidence of tumor growth in women receiving hormone replacement therapy. Now, bas...

While young children sleep, connections between the left and the right hemispheres of their brain strengthen, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new study.

Giant sloths were on the menu for humans that arrived in the Americas 30,000 years ago, a new study suggests.

I finished reading Chris Hadfield’s new book recently and was quite struck by one of his ideas — why it’s best to be a zero. In Hadfield’s terminology, a “zero” is a person who contributes enough to keep the ...

A crop-dusting aircraft's graceful, looping route over Russian farmland is tracked by the pilot's GPS, resulting in a beautiful map you won't see anywhere else     

Among the melee of conspiracy theories that have risen and fallen in the years since the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, one theory has remained the focus of intense debate: the single-bullet theory.

Each year, close to two million people in the United States visit their doctor for shoulder pain. One study examines the long-term benefits of rotator cuff surgery.

A strategy to increase levels of beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) has been shown for the first time to be effective in non-human primates. The approach uses tiny antisense sequences to block the action of microR...

In yeast at least, the aging process appears to reduce an organism's ability to silence certain genes that need to be silenced. Now researchers who study the biology of aging have shown that the loss of genetic control o...

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a faster 3D printing process and are now using it to model and fabricate heterogeneous objects, which comprise multiple materials.

Our epigenome is a set of chemical switches that turn parts of our genome off and on and are impacted by environmental factors including diet, exercise and stress. Research reveals that aging also effects the epigenome i...

Infants born prematurely are at a significantly increased risk for pressure ulcers, yet nurses at one hospital have been able to eliminate this threat for patients in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.

Results of a study have identified a possible link between a history of sudden drops in blood pressure and the most common form of irregular heartbeat.

Lever Handle Delaney Turner In a post this morning, I wrote that Vancouver's plan to ban doorknobs from being implemented in new buildings in favor of lever-style handles was a great idea. Doorknobs are less ergonomic, a...

Mount Etna's volcanic outbursts have been a constant companion for Sicilians for more than 2,000 years, but geoscientists are still trying to solve the mystery of why Etna erupts so frequently.

The NSA's massive dragnet could be ripped apart by tools that make it impossible to know what you are doing on your computer     

At shift change, incoming and outgoing nurses transfer accountability by exchanging information about the patients under their charge. Called bedside handover, this process empowers patients and allows them to become act...