If your best friend is a guy from "The Office" or a young doctor on "Grey's Anatomy," you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a...
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A new paper contradicts the notion of a shrinking supply of native-born talent in United States. "Those who advocate increasing the supply of STEM talent should...
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According to a study released today by the committee bidding to stage the World Cup in the United States in either 2018 or 2022, such an event could have "a...
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A new survey in Brunei suggests that the majority of Bruneians want husbands who cheat on their wives to be whipped.
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According to Nielsen Media Research, children aged 2-11 spend more hours in front of the tube than they have since at least 2001.
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Middle-aged men have historically had a higher prevalence of heart attack and advanced heart disease than women of the same age, but researchers say the findings...
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A new study from The Worldwatch Institute finds that 51% of annual global CO2 emissions can be directly attributed to livestock; making it the single largest global...
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A small but provocative study showed that a form of gene therapy significantly improved the vision of patients left legally blind by a rare genetic eye disease. The...
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A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of...
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Men who voted for Republican John McCain in last year's US presidential election saw their testosterone levels fall significantly when they learned he had lost...
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While the investigation into the two Northwest pilots who overshot a runway by 150 miles continues, a January report called, "Fatigue Countermeasures in...
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Here's a word of warning from someone who's seen a rental car or two ripped up in his day. If you find yourself on this side of the Earth, and happen to...
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The more housework you do, the more often you're likely to have sex with your husband or wife, according to a new study.
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Poor immigrant Latinas have healthy babies, but by age 2 or 3, their toddlers begin to lag behind white middle-class children in vocabulary, listening and...
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Even when executions are not carried out, the death penalty costs US states hundreds of millions of dollars a year, depleting budgets in the midst of economic crisis,...
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The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed. A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that...
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We've heard for decades that the medium of the last half of the 20th Century, television, tends to rot ones brain. Now a study conducted by UCLA suggests that...
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Warming temperatures could lead to a significant increase in the productivity of high-elevation forests in the region, researchers at Oregon State University and the...
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Burning coal to generate electricity in the U.S. causes about $62 billion a year in “hidden costs” for environmental damage, not including expenses...
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The question concerning whether or not children who receive vaccinations are more likely to have autism or autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) may have been indirectly...
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