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Aung Zaw Oo is a game animator by day, parkour master and YouTube celeb by night. Check out his latest video of daring physical feats...and some juggling.

Scientists may have finally solved a problem that has plagued beer drinkers for ages: Insufficient foam resiliency.

In his new book Tip and the Gipper, MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews reflects on his time as a top aide to Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill during Ronald Reagan's presidency. He compares O'Neill and Reagan's unlikely friendship to today's approach of "government by tantrum."

Even as mental health treatment gets a stronger footing with insurers, the care itself may be less than ideal. Primary care doctors, rather than psychiatrists, provide a lot treatment for mental health issues.

In The Story of the Human Body, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman explains how our bodies haven't adapted to modern conditions. The result is "mismatch diseases" — ailments that occur because our bodies weren't designed for the environments in which we now live.

Twinned rainbows are the subject of a new research paper from a team of scientists at UC San Diego and Disney Research.

With emergency jobless benefits on hold, millions are enduring the stresses of long-term unemployment. And the toll isn't just economic: An economics professor chronicles the physical and psychological toll of joblessness. And another economist asks: Is it time now to rethink the federal unemployment insurance program altogether?

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for breakthroughs in fiber optics and digital imaging.

Veterans all over the country are waiting months, and sometimes years, before they see a response to their disability claims. Native American veterans have had an especially difficult time navigating the federal claim system. And they comprise more veterans than any other minority group.