Derek Jenkins, Rice University, Houston, Texas. Vivian Ho ([email protected]), Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Hospitals rely on cash reserves to cover capital costs ...

The papyrus, known as Anastasi I, or “The Satirical Letter,” is believed by most to take the form of a somewhat mocking letter written between two army scribes. A 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus ...

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Islands that are thousands of miles apart dominated Prime Minister's Questions in London. Here's a recap of the session: That's all for our live Commons coverage - in Davos, President Trump is about ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...

Representative Seth Moulton is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, but he learned about the U.S. military’s middle-of-the-night capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro the ...

This post is part 1 of 5 on modern perspectives on ADHD. A common sentiment is that ADHD is becoming overdiagnosed. There are numerous arguments for this position: On a bell curve of any human ...

The Delaware Supreme Court has restored a massive pay package awarded to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in 2018 that had twice been voided by a lower court judge. The package awarded Musk the option to purchase ...

House Republicans on Wednesday passed a partisan package of health care policies designed to provide a conservative alternative to extending the expiring ObamaCare subsidies. The legislation has ...

You've been waiting for one final delivery to complete that perfect holiday gift for your sweet aunt. The delivery, however, landed on someone else's front porch. With the holiday shopping season in ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Surprises can sometimes be a good thing — but if that surprise is an unexpected “gift” on your doorstep, today might not be your lucky day. In a new round of scamming, fraudsters are sending ...