While most babies his age are fearlessly scampering about, learning to walk, talk, getting hugged and kissed by their parents, 2-year-old Tripp Roth can’t bear even a single touch.
Researchers said Tuesday that the planet, named Kepler-20f, with a radius only 3 percent larger than the Earth and was found in a five-planet solar system that challenges models of how planets form.
New York pet owners can now rest at ease - forever -- with their beloved critters.
Fat Americans earn significantly less than their skinny co-workers, and the gap is even worse for chunky women than for overweight men, a new study shows.
Jennifer Hudson who has lost 80 pounds through Weight Watchers, a program she is now a spokeswoman for, walked the red carpet for the VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul on Sunday in New York, looking thinner than she did after her recent weight loss.
Planets orbiting red dwarf stars may have a habitable zone 10-30 percent further away from the star than previously calculated, according to scientists.
Patients want easy access to any notes their doctor has recorded about them, and they want the right to let others view their medical information, according to a pair of U.S. studies.
Women who use lotions and gels to produce a fake suntan tend to cut back on outdoor sunbathing and use of tanning beds, with close to 40 percent who use such products saying they limited their time in the sun, U.S. researchers said.
Researchers have for the first time identified remains of plant-eating dinosaurs in Antarctica. The Argentinean research team suggests that these large bodied sauropod dinosaur or advanced titanosaurs were widespread during the Late Cretaceous era.
Christmas tree syndrome can cause a range of negative impacts on the health of holiday revelers who put them up in their homes
On the heels of the announcement of the first-confirmed Earth-like planet, NASA officials plan Tuesday to announce new discoveries from the founding Kepler mission.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman ruled the Center for Reproductive Rights can reopen a lawsuit against the FDA that alleges the agency's decision to deny over-the-counter access to Plan B for all women is not supported by medical or scientific evidence.
The styptic pencil, which contains Alum Blocks that have salts inside that constrict blood vessels and tighten pores, can instantly stop bleeding nicks and cuts after shaving, making for a great and cheap Christmas gift.
A major winter storm is moving towards the U.S. Southern Plains, forecasters say. Heavy snow and blizzard conditions are expected to set in through southwestern Kansas, central and eastern Texas and Oklahoma.
Sanford & Son actor Graham Brown died in New jersey on Tuesday of pulmonary failure at the age of 87. A memorial celebration for Brown will take place on a date to be announced later.
An MIT Media Lab team, comprising of Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar and Andreas Velten, a Postdoctoral Associate in MIT) has invented a marvelous, ultra-fast imaging system that can capture photons or light particles, which move million times faster than bullet, in slow motion. How does it do it? Well, it can shoot at trillion frames per second (fps)!
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has confirmed that scientists have come closer than ever to detecting the elusive Higgs boson or God particle that confers mass on matter.
For the first time in 50 years, a middle-aged woman from the Sumter County of South Carolina, has been infected with human rabies, according to a statement by the state's health officials.
Animal enthusiasts may find it hard to comprehend that anyone would be afraid of a cute, cuddly puppy, but studies prove that animal phobias are quite real and distinct from other types of phobias.
Comet Lovejoy -- on a near-collision course with the sun and presumed to be doomed to a fiery death -- surprised astronomers on Thursday when it passed completely through the sun's corona and shot back out into space.
The words pollution and play shouldn't go together, but these photos show the conditions in which children have been playing this year in various parts of the world.
Turns out restricting where people can smoke may be one of the best ways to deter the habit, according to a survey released Friday.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) will sharply curtail medical research studies using chimpanzees, humans' closest relative in the animal kingdom, after an expert panel said such studies are rarely warranted.
At least 133 people in India are dead and 327 others hospitalized after drinking moonshine, health officials have said.
Chile's government wants men in the South American country to take off their ties to help fight global warming, hoping the campaign will save on air conditioning as summer starts in the southern hemisphere.
Chilver was so thin it caused the death of parts of her stomach and bowel. She weighed 4.7 stones, or 66 pounds. She died in July.
New York City school children slimmed down during the past five years, according to research results published Thursday.
One in five U.S. women have been sexually assaulted at some point in their life, according to a new CDC survey, a figure the agency reports is significantly higher than they expected.
There has been great media speculation in the last few days whether scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have discovered the elusive God Particle. Indeed, as CERN says, there are some positive signals. In an exclusive interview, CERN's spokesman and head of communication James Gillies says there are hints that something might be there. However, it will take one more year for them to resolve the mystery.
Children whose fathers smoked have at least a 15 percent higher risk of developing the most common form of childhood cancer, a new Australian study finds.
