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Remember the 1980s movie Brewster's Millions, in which a minor league baseball pitcher (played by Richard Pryor) must spend $30 million in 30 days to inherit $300 million? Pryor goes on an epic spending spree for a bigge...

A small team of researchers from multiple institutions in France has learned more about the properties of the "cobra wave" by building structures from popsicle sticks and filming wave progressions with a high-speed camer...

Children from unintended pregnancies tend to experience more depressive symptoms in early adulthood than children from intended pregnancies, however there's little evidence of a causal relationship. The association betwe...

If you're a smoker considering cosmetic surgery, your plastic surgeon will likely require you to stop smoking for at least two weeks before your procedure. A long-term follow-up study finds that many patients receiving t...

For centuries, scientists have tried to understand triboelectric charging, commonly known as static electricity.

Jupiter's icy moon is a promising place to find alien microbes, but hopes that they could be blasted into space by watery plumes may have diminished

In collaboration with a scientist, an Iranian dancer is working to communicate the beauty of particle physics through dance. Although CERN physicist Andrea Latina had always been interested in the arts, he had never real...

Scientists have designed a way to use microscopic capsules made out of DNA to deliver a payload of tiny molecules directly into a cell. The technique gives scientists an opportunity to understand certain interactions amo...

For the first time, researchers have shown in a randomised trial that looking at pictures of skinny models is enough to change a person's body ideals

Since the realization of the first laser cavity countless questions have been asked for which laser light has provided the answer. Numerous questions have also been posed in an effort to improve on our abilities to produ...

The fossilized remains of two pterosaurs -- winged reptiles that flew sky high during the dinosaur age -- suggest that the beasts were closely related to the gigantic Quetzalcoatlus northropi, the largest pterosaur on re...

A group of researchers has developed an approach to efficiently produce antibodies that can bind to two different target molecules simultaneously, a long-desired innovation in the field of cancer immunotherapy.

A new framework giving imaging practitioners the ability to optimize pediatric patients' care for tailoring radiation doses for accurate imaging tasks.

Excluding children from school may lead to long-term psychiatric problems and psychological distress, a study of thousands of children has shown.

In a study of nearly 400 preschool children, only one child adhered to obesity prevention guidelines over the course of a single day at child care and at home.

Researchers have unraveled the negative effects of pesticide exposure on birth outcomes, such as weight, gestation and abnormalities.

Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and while she never got the Nobel, she is the only womanoutside of mythology to have an element named after her --

A mysterious chemical cloud descended on beaches in England on Sunday (Aug. 27), according to news reports, and authorities are still puzzling over what caused it and why it sickened more than 100 people.

By the time Parkinson's disease manifests as the typical motor dysfunctions, portions of the brain have already been irreversibly destroyed. In search of an early portent of the disease, researchers may now have found on...

The question of how mental health status affects decisions regarding retirement savings is becoming a pressing issue in the United States. Key factors contributing to this issue include the tenuous state of the Social Se...

The origins of autism remain mysterious. What areas of the brain are involved, and when do the first signs appear? New findings brings us closer to understanding the pathology of autism, and the point at which it begins ...

Study suggests that middle-aged people who report that they are slow walkers could be at higher risk of heart disease compared to the general population.