Other than that, however, those with situs inversus totalis – that is, a mirror-image transposition of all organs – have ...

The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

This was a primary nuclear explosion test site for the Soviet Union and its radioactive legacy is still present today.

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Mermithidae refers to a family of nematode worms known to parasitize various arthropods (that’s your crunchy invertebrates, ...

In some rare cases, fields of drumlins can be flooded with water due to rising sea levels, creating a collection of so-called ...

Two historians are debating a potential penis in the famous medieval embroidery, but the topic is not as frivolous as it may ...

“While vitamin C may be found in banana peels, it is unlikely that it will be at high enough concentration in the peel or ...

Other vaccine-preventable diseases are unlikely to reestablish endemicity under current levels of vaccination, the ...

A. Picasso isn’t the only of the new microsnails with a name inspired by the arts either; a species discovered from Myanmar ...

It’s a pretty appropriate name given where H. hades lives; the trench extends down to the hadal zone, itself named after ...

Thanks to Inouye, as well as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe – the fastest human-made object in space – and the incredible European ...