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

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.

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Researchers collected feathers from the owls during the spring migration season in 2020 at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory ...

“While vitamin C may be found in banana peels, it is unlikely that it will be at high enough concentration in the peel or ...

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 ...

E xtraordinary behavior has been reported in a species of Hyposmocoma caterpillars. Although the species is yet to be given a ...

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 ...