n The woman had sought medical help after suffering abdominal pain and surgeons found the large cysts in her ovaries, before pulling a mass of hair from her body n A gigantic cyst made up hundreds of hairs has been…
Recently discovered dinosaur and small animal footprints date back 183 million years to periods of quite in between fiery, lava eruptions. This story begins with a dusty photo. In 2018, Emese Bordy, an associate professor of sedimentology at the University…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the new coronavirus outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, officials announced today (Jan. 30). The news comes as the case count and death toll from the virus have soared…
The novel coronavirus has spread for the first time in the U.S. through person-to-person contact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today (Jan. 30) during a teleconference. The virus was confirmed in the husband of an Illinois…
As the new coronavirus continues to cross international borders, the two key questions on public health officials’ minds are: ‘How deadly is it?’ and ‘Can it be contained?’. The two outbreaks in recent memory that give the most insight into…
With every passing moment, another breaking report about the newfound coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, hits your news feed. So far, more than 7,700 cases of the virus have been confirmed, including more than 100 cases beyond China. But one vital question is…
The Abbey at Bath has a spectacular facade. Newly unearthed remains may come from the monastery where England’s first king, Edgar the Peaceful, was coronated more than 1,000 years ago, according to Wessex Archaeology, an archaeological company and charity in…
A newborn baby. U.S. life expectancy at birth has increased for the first time in four years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And a large part of this increase is attributable…
As a new coronavirus spreads in China and around the world, scientists are scrambling to find out exactly where it came from. Now, a new study provides more clues to the virus’ origins, and points to bats as the most…
The nurse at the Ulm University Medical Centre in southern Germany was arrested after a syringe containing breast milk with morphine was found in a locker during a police raid Five babies were poisoned with morphine, police in Germany said…