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Almost every movie that was up for an Academy Award has been available online for months — often posted illegally.

That's just one of about 200 academic papers related to the Academy Awards that Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch has uncovered.

Eddie Redmayne won the SAG Award for Lead Actor and dedicated it to those living with ALS, the disease from which his "The Theory of Everything" character suffers.

No matter that most critics panned "Dumb and Dumber To." Guess who got the last laugh with a $38.1M opening weekend?

Virgin Galactic said it would cooperate with authorities in the investigation, which is expected to begin Saturday.

SpaceShipTwo's crash may have some of its 700 passengers changing their minds about space flight.

The billionaire inventor of the Tesla Model S says artificial intelligence is like “summoning a demon.”

Maggie Smith's long career was celebrated by the queen with the Companions of Honor award. Is Lady Violet a royal now?

This Columbus Day, we recall the famed mariner who was responsible for launching not only three ships but also a million one-liners.

A new study from a University of North Carolina physicist comes to a "shocking" conclusion: “There is no such thing as a black hole.”

Famed astrophysicist weighs in on the "firewall paradox" debate.

Nobel Prizes reward discoveries, not the theories where the world's most famous living physicist concentrates.

British scientist Stephen Hawking has spoken out in favor of assisted suicide, stating that it would be better to allow those who are terminally ill to choose to end their own lives rather than force them to suffer.

Stephen Hawking recounts his life in a new memoir, “My Brief History.”

Waters has long campaigned against what he perceives as Israel’s unjust treatment of Palestinians.

"The Big Bang Theory" returns to CBS Sept. 26. Find out some spoilers that the cast and producers dished out at Comic-Con about season seven.

Stephen Hawking does seem to be adhering to an academic boycott of Israel, despite some conflicting media reports and university statements indicating otherwise.

When Hawking was initially diagnosed with motor neuron disease at 21, doctors gave him just two years to live.

Actress Deborah Raffin, who became well-known relatively late in her life for launching a successful audio book company, has died of leukemia. She was 59.

The Chicago-based band California Wives has released its first album, "Art History."

Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu writes of mistreatment by her father and coaches and finding her sister in her book, Off Balance.