People with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) have an obsession relating to their body image, where they believe that they have a defect in their appearance.
BDD is estimated to affect one to two per cent of the population. Individuals with BDD engage with time-consuming compulsive behaviors such as mirror-checking, applying make-up to camouflage and seeking reassurance about their appearance.
Noise levels, fine particulate matter that leads to smog and traffic volumes are a big concern to urban planners and residents now but they will be even bigger issues in the 'city of tomorrow'.
Three-dimensional tools will soon make it easier to simulate those issues: as the user virtually moves through his city, the corresponding data are displayed as green, yellow or red dots.
A new study estimates that more than 260,000 dogs and cats were sent to UK rescue shelters in 2009, the first full year of the worldwide recession.
Dogs and cats are popular pets in the UK and two of the authors of the new estimate study, Dr. Jane Murray and Professor Tim Gruffydd-Jones, having previously estimated the owned cat and dog populations at approximately 10.3 and 10.5 million respectively.
Astronomers believe they have found the answer to the mystery of a powerful ‘superwind’ which causes the death of stars.
Stars like our own Sun end their lives with a ‘superwind’ 100 million times stronger than the solar wind, which occurs over a period of 10,000 years, and removes as much as half the mass of the star. At the end, only a dying and fading remnant of the star remain.
Not to worry. The Sun won't begin to throw out those gases for around five billion years.
100 years yesterday, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg while crossing the North Atlantic and sank, killing over 1500 passengers and crew.
Cyberbullies don't feel like they are the same as physical bullies. Some new research agrees, and for that reason anti-bullying campaigns need to be optimized for the Internet.
Traditional bullying, the 'schoolyard' kind of bullying, is often associated with three main characteristics: a power differential between bully and victim, proactive targeting of a victim and ongoing aggression. The Internet is the great equalizer. Traditional power differentials, like size and popularity, don't apply as commonly in cyberbullying and the lines between victim and aggressor are more blurred; it is not unusual for an individual to act in all capacities - bully, victim, and witness - online.
Ousiometrics Analysis Says All Human Language Is Biased 
Wavelengths Of Light Are Why CO2 Cools The Upper Atmosphere But Warms Earth
Here's Where Your Backyard Was 300 Million Years Ago
Convergent Evolution Cheat Sheet Now 120 Million Years Old
