Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In September, Mexican authorities confirmed a case of a deadly flesh-eating parasite in the state of Nuevo León, less than 70 miles (113km) from the Texas border.

The finding, in an eight-month-old cow near the busy Monterrey-to-Laredo highway,…

They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the…

You’ve gone to bed at your usual time, skipped that afternoon coffee, and made…

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and…

Once a year, our planet passes through two separate streams of debris. Discarded by an ancient comet, the debris smashes into our atmosphere at around 65,000 miles per hour and burns brightly, creating a cascade of meteors in the sky. In fact, it…

Unaddressed pain can drive us to the most obscure practices. A recent case of an 82-year-old woman proved that point: inspired by local folktales, she consumed eight live frogs, hoping to relieve her lower back pain.

The story, which ended in a…

Key Takeaways on the Oldest Dinosaur

• The oldest dinosaur was Nyasasaurus, which lived about 243 million years ago.
• Nyasasaurus lived during the middle Triassic when the supercontinent Pangea was still intact.
• Early dinosaurs were about the size of…

Shipwrecks from ancient times have opened up a page of history that tells us how different cultures collaborated. A treasure trove of sunken cargo that was recently found in the Mediterranean, for instance, tells a multi-century story of maritime…