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Many beetles, like ladybugs, have the ability to stick to things as they walk underwater. They can do this by trapping tiny bubbles within hair-like structures on their feet. Researchers at the National University of Singapore have used a similar bubble trick to develop a way to make high quality graphene films. Their new technique is the first which can ...

MICHAEL GIBSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS Do ‘Mean Girls’ get a boost in school? High school students who were rated more attractive than average tended to have better grades than their peers, researchers found. Being hot in high school may be the equivalent of extra credit. High school boys and girls considered more attractive than the bulk of their classmates had higher GPAs ...

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer. A few patients with one type of leukemia were given this one-time, experimental therapy several years ago and some remain cancer-free today. Now, at ...

AVAVA/Getty Images/iStockphoto Children aged 3 and under should always be supervised while sitting in a high chair, said Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The number of toddlers taken to hospital emergency rooms with high chair-related injuries jumped 22% between 2003 and 2010, according to a new study ...