The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

“It was in the development process of one of these films that I was having a creative nap, and suddenly this little piece of the Brothers ... These include eating a tapeworm, sewing in eyelashes ...

Scientists with DARPA are trying to find ways to biohack human cells to create soldiers that can withstand disease better.

Mark your calendar for the Mother Tongue Film Festival and events covering everything from odd oceanic couples to resilient ...

For Edoardo Bellotti It was the first June of the new millennium and we were in the northern Italian foothills of the Alps.

Faced with a rash of shark deaths marked by brain swelling, Canadian and American scientists are trying to solve a marine ...

Todd Ley’s account of his time as a tennis prodigy may be one of the most important books you will ever read on tennis.

You know that feeling when someone you're dating does this one thing that you just can't look past? Here's what scientists ...

A dog's double coat plays a key role in keeping them safe and healthy. Shaving such canines can result in several uncomfortable consequences.

Much works against her and all the native bees (besides humans). There are parasites, velvet ants and ... it’s just a tiny piece of the rose bush. Beyond these bees, there is the sweat bee ...

When farmers began domesticating animals, those cattle, sheep, and goats became sources of milk and meat but also of parasites ... piece of evidence is lactose tolerance. All humans digest mother ...

A while back, Reddit user No_Camera29 asked, "What's a creepy fact you wish you never learned?" and people had some super disturbing responses that we wrote about here. Now we're back for more creepy ...