Former congressman and physicist Bill Foster thinks electing more scientists to Congress will make government work better, so he created Albert’s List, a political action committee named after Albert Einstein.

Zack Hample, 33, belongs to a small but growing group of diehard baseball fans: Ballhawks. Some center their entire lives around catching baseballs from the stands. Hample holds the unofficial word record with 4,662.

Star forward Blake Griffin has drawn new fans to the perennially losing Los Angeles Clippers. Diehard fans of the city’s second-favorite professional basketball team are enjoying the attention, but they wonder: Can it last?

Thousands of young adults with mental illness across America are forced to live in supportive housing with older adults who have exhibited chronic mental illness their entire lives. These facilities often lack the services that would help young adults recover and go on to live normal, healthy lives.

Facebook’s most recent revamp may have pulled the Poke button out of the shadows, but nobody is poking.

In hospitals, rehabilitation centers, homes and schools across the country, occupational therapists are helping the aged drive, the young write, the physically disabled bathe, and the injured walk. A rapid surge in demand is lifting the health care industry’s “best-kept secret” into the spotlight.

Al-Jazeera English has seen an enormous increase in traffic on its website with its coverage of the uprising in Egypt and other international events. However, the channel is still not available from most cable carriers in the United States, so Americans who get their news from television are less likely to watch Al-Jazeera English.

Scientists have discovered a protein that helps Staphylococcus epidermidis – one of the most common causes of health care-associated infections – escape from bacterial communities formed on catheters. It’s too soon to say, but the findings could reduce the estimated $28 billion to $45 billion that hospitals annually spend on health care-associated infections.

Not washing your raw denim jeans is good for the environment. Whether it’s hygienic is up for debate.

Martial arts are no longer confined to dojos or expensive seminars. Now you can find video lessons online. But are they any good? And can you really learn a martial art from a video?