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

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

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

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The scholar who identified the message has now found several others, which show that the Luxor Obelisk still has something to ...

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

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

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

“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 ...