Doctor Who

A new study has found a strong association between 'Doctor Who' episodes aired between Christmas and the New Year and a reduction in mortality rates in the subsequent year, suggesting that watching a doctor who cares encourages health-seeking behavior.

A team of cosmologists in Finland and Poland have proposed that the accelerated expansion of the universe, usually explained by dark energy, may actually be the result of "Tardis regions" of spacetime that are larger on the inside than they appear from the outside.