Lip gloss and hair straighteners replace lipstick and hair dryers in the typical basket of goods used to calculate inflation.

Three-quarters of Canadian family doctors say they suffered at least one incident of major abuse at the hands of a patient, according to a new study. The study, the first national look at the violence in doctor's offices, was released Friday in the journal Canadian Family Physician.

Dr Steve Myers told BBC News the faults will delay the machine reaching its full potential for two years. The atom smasher will reach world record collision energies later this month at 7 trillion electron volts. But joints between the machine's magnets must be strengthened before higher-energy co

Booze, for all its magical wonder, still has big drawbacks: You can't sober up quickly, and you often get a hangover. Now Korean researchers have found a way of tweaking booze to limit the fallout — without cutting its strength.

"People who don't wear shoes when they run have an astonishingly different strike," says Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and co-author of a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature.

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This is going to be awkward, but someone has to tell you, so it may as well be me: you're kind of a loser. You know that feeling you sometimes have that your friends have more friends than you? You're right. They do. And you know how almost everyone at the gym seems in better shape than you, and

A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, nea

Lindsay Lohan sex tape to be made public: report

A sex tape allegedly starring Lindsay Lohan is reportedly about to be made public.

The Mean Girls actress, who recently filmed a documentary about child trafficking in India, is said to be the star of a 47-second clip which could be about to ap

According to neuroscientists, having a lack of willpower isn't a character flaw, it could all be down to the physical make-up of the brain. US science writer Jonah Lehrer explains an experiment by a psychologist at Stanford University which shows "just how weak your willpower muscles are".