As a physician, mother, daughter and socially responsible human, I’m finding Mother’s Day to be complicated for me this year, as it is for millions. Questions of whether and how to see my adult children and my own elderly mother…
A National Weather Service map shows where freeze warnings (navy) are in effect for this weekend. Temperatures are expected to drop to record lows for this time of year across much of the northern U.S east of the Rocky Mountains.…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home saliva collection test for COVID-19, which people could use to sample their own saliva and send it into a lab for results. Developed by RUCDR Infinite Biologics, a…
If you were told this beef was lab-grown human meat, would it look more or less appealing? Richard Dawkins wants to know if lab-grown meat will eradicate the taboo against cannibalis
Wild elephants walk along a village road in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, on Aug. 1, 2019. A photo that circulated widely on Twitter in March allegedly showed a pair of Asian elephants in rural southwestern China that…
CT scans revealed a dense mass distending the lizard’s abdomen. A greasy, sandy diet left a northern curly-tailed lizard with a belly distended by a heavy ball of unpassable poop. The mass was so large that it made up nearly…