A new film will examine a centuries-old tradition among some underprivileged Indian communities where girls in the family become prostitutes, with their brothers and fathers acting as pimps. Mostly restricted to a few male-dominated ethnic groups in central and southern India, this custom means women sell themselves to support the family while the men drink [...]

Research lends insight into nature and function of this complex emotion.

Earl Hartman was a little rattled by something he says he found in a can of green beans: a snake head.

If your dreams are hot enough to burn the sheets, you’ve got company.

Australian researchers have uncovered a link between smoking and an increased risk of dementia.

Dennis Hope, self-proclaimed Head Cheese of the Lunar Embassy, will promise you the moon. Or at least a piece of it.

She spent the morning proving herself the model patient and when her check-up was over, she was ready for the elephant equivalent of a handful of jellybeans – slices of apple, carrot, corn and banana.

The prospect of super-strength military body armour inspired by silk from deadly black widow spiders has moved a step closer after research revealed by a US university.

Pioneering and poetic — or borderline macabre, whichever way you want to view it — but burials in space seem set for a starry future.

A simple blood test may eventually replace the dreaded and highly invasive colonoscopy for detecting colon cancer, say U.S. researchers.

Australian and US scientists successfully launched a supersonic scramjet engine at an Outback test range Friday, as they work on a device that could revolutionise air travel. The researchers said a rocket carrying the scramjet reached speeds of mach 10 — ten times the speed of sound — after blasting off at the Woomera range [...]

The American Council on Exercise (ACE) recently published research that determined the most effective gluteal exercises. The study compared specific gluteal exercises to a traditional squat to see which exercises targeted the butt muscles most effectively. (w/top 10 pics)