Diagnostic dilemma: Whiplike rashes appeared on a woman’s back after she ate shiitake mushrooms
The patient: A 23-year-old woman in Florida The symptoms: The woman went to the emergency room with an itchy rash on her back that had...
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Brilliant-green fireball meteor explodes over erupting volcano in the Philippines
Stunning new footage shows a bright-green “fireball” meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the falling...
Doctors may soon be able to check your red blood cells by filming your eyeball
Researchers have developed a system that uses short videos of the eye to estimate a person’s levels of red blood cells — no needles required....
Chinese medical practitioners used extremely toxic plant as a topical anesthetic 600 years ago, study finds
A 600-year-old set of surgical tools found in a tomb in China has revealed the world’s first chemical evidence of a topical anesthetic. Used to...
Rare genetic disease makes scientists reconsider what the ‘seat of fear’ in the brain really is
The wind picks up dust from the unpaved road one afternoon in December as Jack van Honk turns into a ramshackle neighborhood in Lambert’s Bay,...
It’s illegal to repair most of our devices. There’s a surprising reason for that.
If you have ever tried to repair something, realized that it was beyond your financial or technical means, and ended up buying a new one,...
Bead net funerary shroud: A 2,500-year-old beaded veil from Egypt depicting the deceased’s transformation into Osiris
The shroud was made from a net of thousands of colored beads. (Image credit: Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles...
Bizarre patterns on Venus have scientists puzzled
Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet’s heretofore inscrutable interior. Using NASA Magellan spacecraft data from decades past,...
Jupiter’s Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, may be heating up
Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede is the only known moon to have its own magnetic field — and it may be heating up in a process...
‘We can identify these really early, before the clinical diagnosis’: Epigenetic markers may help explain why Native Hawaiians are aging faster
Epigenetics, which means “above genetics,” results in changes to the way an individual’s genes act without involving changes to the DNA itself. For example, by...