You have died of dysentery. These are five words familiar to anyone who has attempted to caulk a wagon and ford rivers en route to the Willamette Valley. Oregon Trail not only taught generations of ...

So can I eat my noodles if a dog pooped nearby? For the most part, nasty smells are “CAUTION” signs, not the cause of harm.

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

Before lithium became available to treat this potentially devastating illness, bipolar I sufferers experienced repeated ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

You think your job is boring? Imagine living centuries ago and working constantly at jobs that weren't just tedious but also ...

Stephen King’s Danse Macabre (1981) argues that horror serves a cathartic function, allowing creators and audiences to confront fears safely, providing an emotional “workout” that helps individuals ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

While hospitals may be facing challenges, it’s unlikely that they will disappear entirely. The healthcare system will evolve into a more diverse and distributed model.

For 41 years, the historic Byrd Park Pump House along the Kanawha Canal — recognizable for its Victorian Gothic design — ...

A trained pharmaceutical chemist, Lilly was an archetype of the dynamic and multi-talented 19th ... the last century. This knowledge of genetics and the underlying cause of many diseases ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...