About 70-million-year-old fossilized bones and eggs of alvarezsauridae, an enigmatic family of small bird-like dinosaur, have been discovered in Patagonia, South America.
Lisa Rinna is 48-years-old and smoking hot, so it only makes sense that companies would want the Days of our Lives actress to sell their product. Rinna is now the new face of Depend adult diapers.
An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck right off the waters of Indonesia on April 11, 2012. The large quake could be felt in Singapore, Thailand and India, striking fear in thousands of people. Fear of a tsunami striking is due to the 2004 earthquake that hit Indonesia. Take a look at photos of the devastation that the 2004 earthquake and tsunami caused to the Aceh province in Indonesia.
All eyes were expected to be on Kate Middleton on her wedding day, but for one woman it was all about Kate's sister Pippa. After watching Pippa at Prince William and Kate's royal wedding, Florida single mom, Jenny Fizgerald, 43, decided to get plastic surgery. So what body part of Pippa Middleton did the mom of two want to mimic?
A group of engineering students at Purdue University set a new world record for the largest Rube Goldberg Machine with a 300-step contraption tasked with inflating and popping a balloon.
Monitoring the electrical activity in the heart could be a good new way to pinpoint heart attack risk in elderly patients and help doctors steer their patients away from coronary heart disease, researchers said in a new study on Tuesday.
Teenage birth rates in the United States have fallen by 9 percent from 2009 to 2010, reported the National Center for Health Statistics. They have never been so low since measuring began in 1946.
Trisomy 18 has been in the news lately because it's the chromosome abnormality affecting GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's daughter, Bella. What is it?
Japan's Aokigahara forest has a chilling history. At the foot of Mount Fuji, authorities remove around 100 bodies a year from the forest - all victims of suicide.
Children who receive frequent dental X-rays are at a higher risk of developing brain tumors, according to a new study.
A new study suggests people who had certain kinds of dental X-rays in the past may be at an increased risk for meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor in the U.S.
For monkeys, being on top of the social pyramid is likely good for the health - and it could be true for humans, too. Researchers led by a University of Chicago and Emory University team studying social hierarchies in rhesus macaques have found that a monkey's social status appears to influence how her genes are regulated, particularly those genes pertaining to the immune system.
Keeping a 53-mile-wide ocean channel open may be the key to preventing abrupt climate change events, scientists say.
There are a lot of patients who have been groping in the dark for some time now, and here's an opportunity to shine a light in their brain.
Women who postpone getting pregnant often rely on in-vitro fertilization when they get older, according to a new study. But getting pregnant when you are older is not only harder, it's dangerous too.
Healthcare costs related to obesity total more than $190 billion is spent annually - - more than double previous estimates, according to a new study.
Most 10-year-old girls first grapple with the notion of motherhood when they play with a toy doll, but for an indigenous Colombian girl that notion became a reality when she underwent a Caesarean Section and was delivered a daughter weighing just 5 pounds on Friday.
A new study of mothers and children in California finds that kids born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer moms.
U.S. regulators gave the nod to an imaging test from Eli Lilly and Co. that can for the first time help doctors detect brain plaque tied to Alzheimer's disease, the company said.
A Colombian tribal girl stunned doctors when she gave birth to a healthy 51/2-lbs baby last week at the young age of ten, becoming one of the youngest mothers in history.
Negative attitude towards homosexuality is likely to be more pronounced among individuals who harbor unacknowledged attraction towards the same sex, and who grew up in conservative authoritarian households which forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies have found.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Inland Fisheries (DNR) is offering $200 gift cards for dead snakehead fish, but before you grab your fishing gear there are a couple things you should know about the fish from hell.
A former mortgage broker turned stripper is claiming she had a procedure done by fix-a-flat doctor Oneal Ron Morris and is now unable to strip and is facing foreclosure because the fake butt implant ruined her life.
A new study from Purdue University has discovered the presence of piceatannoI in red wine that has the potential to interfere with fat cell development in the human body. PiceatannoI is a compound found in grapes, blueberries and passion fruit with a structural property similar to the much known resveratrol. The study is seen as a forerunner for anti-obesity measures
Many a child at Easter has been puzzled by the mechanics of a rabbit laying eggs. While it's hard to logically dissect the origins of the Easter Bunny, other symbols of the holiday have some scientific significance.
It now seems possible that antibiotics could treat some patients with appendicitis better than surgery.
One of the most promising new cancer drugs isn't new at all -- it's metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1994. It may be able to suppress tumors, according to new research.
A new bill that requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals could force the state's only abortion clinic to close its doors.
The Large Hadron Collider broke records during its first performance of 2012, smashing millions of protons together to achieve an all-time high energy output of 8 trillion electron volts. This year, CERN scientists are on the fast track to either prove or disprove the existence of the Higgs boson.
Dyslexia is the most common type of learning disability and affects somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of the US population. Italian scientists now say that children can display signs of dyslexia even before they begin to read -- a finding that could be used to steer kids into programs that could help stave off the learning disability.
