The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Primm, Nev., a once-thriving casino town on the border with California, was on the verge of fading away for good. The family ...

The cows and antelope outside Stan and Tammy Higgins' Wyoming home have been replaced by construction crews—and now a ...

Boredom and anxiety are the two most common issues children (and, let’s be honest, adults) deal with on long road trips, says Fran Walfish, PhD, a family therapist in Beverly Hills, California, and ...

Kyoko: "Hey, old man. No matter how you look at it, isn't that poop??" One week before Tanabata, at dusk on the last day of June. We launched a prototype of the Meiko Special from a test stand set up ...

Everyone knows Dune focuses on this stuff called spice melange. Dune’s spice is found only on the desert planet Arrakis, which the emperor yanks from House Harkonnen and hands to House Atreides in a ...

Editor’s Note: Here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, signs that climate change has arrived are all around us. We see it in our disappearing beaches, the flooding of our homes, the ever-looming ...

William, the tyrant prince (5-7 months old), has been with us for two months. I haven't been able to take my eyes off him for 24 hours. The house is about to be destroyed, the first step of the stairs ...

What is better than the exquisite pain of perma-death? Why, sharing it with a friend or two, of course! The above statement being a universal truth, I have endeavoured to build the most detailed and ...

The source of the current outbreak is unknown, but certain types of fresh produce have historically been the culprit.