Cyclosporiasis is a type of food poisoning caused by the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. The parasite transmits via fecally ...

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Primm, Nev., a once-thriving casino town on the border with California, was on the verge of fading away for good. The family ...

This story contains photos of the sewage-affected bathroom which may upset some readers. Residents in the Wellington suburb of Miramar are disturbed after sewage exploded out of their toilets during ...

The Glyptapanteles wasp, also widely known as the voodoo wasp, impregnates a caterpillar with about 80 eggs at a time. Once the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae feed on the caterpillar’s body fluids, which ...

Kyoko: "Hey, old man. No matter how you look at it, isn't that poop??" One week before Tanabata, at dusk on the last day of June. We launched a prototype of the Meiko Special from a test stand set up ...

I have loved beautiful things since I was young. Beautiful people, beautiful interiors, beautiful buildings. I often found myself gazing at them in magazines and other media, completely enchanted. And ...

Editor’s Note: Here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, signs that climate change has arrived are all around us. We see it in our disappearing beaches, the flooding of our homes, the ever-looming ...

Everyone knows Dune focuses on this stuff called spice melange. Dune’s spice is found only on the desert planet Arrakis, which the emperor yanks from House Harkonnen and hands to House Atreides in a ...

What is better than the exquisite pain of perma-death? Why, sharing it with a friend or two, of course! The above statement being a universal truth, I have endeavoured to build the most detailed and ...