“This is my body.”These words, recorded in the Gospels as being spoken by Jesus during the Last Supper, are said daily at Church... Read More

There's a reason humans have been building homes from wood for 10,000 years. It's an excellent building material—durable, renewable,... Read More

A Swedish company called Emotra make a device to detect someone's risk of suicide based on measuring the body's autonomic responses to... Read More

Textbooks will tell you that the human body contains 206 bones. But sometimes, there are 207. The fabella, a small bone in a tendon behind... Read More

Let's get some things straight.Passover is a springtime Jewish festival celebrating the early Israelites' exodus from Egypt and freedom from... Read More

I think humans are exceptional. To many, this may seem naïve or chauvinistic. Surely, studies in animal behavior (ethology) have... Read More

It was the deadly drug-resistant superbug Acinetobacter baumannii. The infection struck during a holiday trip with his wife to the pyramids... Read More

Packed alongside supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station on an otherwise routine SpaceX resupply run, something... Read More

The Universe's first molecule is found at last! That's what the headlines have been proclaiming this week, as NASA's Stratospheric... Read More

People eat animals that eat plants. If we just eliminate that middle step and eat plants directly, we would diminish our carbon footprint,... Read More

Scientists have restored and preserved some cellular activities and structures in the brains of pigs that had been decapitated for food... Read More

The day was cold, gray, and rainy, and the wolf smelled exactly like a wet dog. I sat on my heels, my shoulders just a few inches higher than... Read More