Month: October 2013

Chinese herbal medicine is quite popular in the West. You can buy all sorts of herbs online and sellers have ...

Chemotherapy is one of the most successful and widespread medical procedures developed during the 20th century. Its origins, however, are ...

For 30 years until 2007, the camera company Kodak maintained its own nuclear reactor. Kept safe in a heavily fortified ...

The antechinus is a small Australian marsupial that only mates once in its life. During that time, it goes into ...

William Buckland was a respected English geologist and palaeontologist, who just so happened to have a strange and slightly disgusting ...

Former US President William McKinley is one of the only presidents to have been assassinated, but there's a very peculiar ...

In 1994, 62 children from a South African private school claimed to see three silver balls flying in the sky. ...

SGR 1806-20 is a neutron star and magnetar. It is different from other stars because it has a strong magnetic ...

Snakes are a pretty common animal in virtually every part of the world. They're creepy and they can be dangerous, ...

The popular view of Charles Darwin is as the guy who "invented" evolution. But while it’s true that his "Origin ...

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) cuts across the Korean Peninsula on the 38th parallel, and is the most heavily militarized ...

Palestinian terrorist group Hamas seeks the destruction of the state of Israel. But in between suicide bombings and rocket strikes, ...

In 1910, an honor guard aboard the HMS Dreadnought welcomed six members of the Abyssinian royal family -- or so ...

In 2003, archaeologists began to discover a series of hominid skeletons on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The skeletons ...

Clara Bow, an extremely popular silent film star in the 1920s, was the victim of a vicious rumor, perpetrated by ...

Something major happened on Earth 1,478 years ago. From 535--536, the Northern Hemisphere experienced a period of extreme cooling. People ...

In the darkest recesses of Tanzania, a quiet lake hides a formidable secret. Any animal that dies in its waters ...

In the first three months of pregnancy, women produce a surplus of red blood cells and hormones in order to ...

Say the word "Nazi" and it brings to mind the worst possible connotations, for good reason. But as it turns ...

J. Marion Sims was a doctor in the 1800s and is widely recognized as the world’s first gynecologist. However, it ...

"Bug chasing" is a term used to describe a person who pursues sex with an HIV-infected individual. It is classified ...