“Me encontraron càncer en la pròstata,” my father told me. They found cancer in my prostate. As a cancer researcher who knows...
As spring expands across North America, trees, shrubs and flowers are releasing pollen. This fine, powdery substance is produced by the...
Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of...
The leading contenders in the 2024 presidential election are two of the three oldest people ever to serve as president....
Infectious disease has always been one of the military’s greatest threats.
Africa’s cattle feed production is a boom-and-bust cycle. Most of the continent’s grazing lands are lush and green in the...
Loss of smell occurs with the common cold and other viral infections of the nose and throat.
It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of...
Hammerhead sharks are the strange-looking ones. They look like someone grabbed their skull by the eye sockets and stretched their...
Imagine discovering an animal species you thought had gone extinct was still living – without laying eyes on it. Such was the case with the Brazilian frog species Megaelosia bocainensis.
It’s rare to attend an outdoor party in warm weather without hearing people complain about mosquitoes. They swat away, sit...
As people rush to stockpile provisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, stores have placed restrictions on the purchase of basic goods and medicines.