America’s top doc told the Herald yesterday that Santa Claus should slim down, in the latest blow struck in a global politically correct crusade against the jolly fat man.

States appear to be taking more action to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental health problems in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, new figures show.

The head of the neurosurgery department at Rhode Island Hospital has stepped aside while officials investigate three incidents in which surgeons operated on the wrong side of a patient’s head.

The designers at New Zealand’s Unit Seven created this New Brainland Map that visualizes and, er, maps out various neural regions. They used a reference photo of a human brain to model the 3D terrain.

Have you ever wanted to get inside another marketer’s head? That is exactly what researchers from Anderson Analytics set out to do. At a moment when the marketing environment may more difficult than at any time in history, they surveyed over 600 members of the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) to identify the “Top Marketing [...]

A pearly white robot that looks a little like ET boosted a man out of bed, chatted and helped prepare his breakfast with its deft hands in Tokyo on Tuesday, in a further sign robots are becoming more like their human inventors.

Complicated braiding, finger exercise, dessert muffins, and a world record top the photos this week.  Amazing stuff. Simply amazing photos.

Scientists believe they have unlocked the secret of younger-looking skin in a development which raises the prospect of an elixir of youth.

Vancouver is hosting the Winter Games in 2010. The Olympic mascots will be Sumi the Thunderbird, Quatchi the Sasquatch, and Miga the Sea Bear, all mythical North American creatures.

Santa is being forced to belt up – in case he falls off his sleigh whizzing through towns at a top speed of 5 mph (8 km/h).

A newspaper editor, whose family has dealt with deadly drunk driving accidents, is offering a coffin to the first person who dies this holiday season from a drunk driving accident.

While past research has linked early sexual activity to health problems, a new study suggests that waiting too long to start having sex carries risks of its own.