The “Herring Lassies,” also known as “Herring Girls” or “Scots Fisher Lassies,” represented a substantial and dynamic female workforce that moved around and followed the herring. They came from the ...

But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...

In the lexicon of economic afflictions, “stagflation” is one of the bad ones. The term (a portmanteau of “stagnation” and ...

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...

This can skew ideas about what is “normal”. For example, one study found men believe the average penis measures 15.8 ...

Keersten Fitzgerald is a GP and a lecturer in the General Practice Clinical School at the University of Sydney. Keersten has ...

PelV-1’s story began at Station ALOHA, a long-term monitoring site in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Scientists ...

A new study from the University of Edinburgh has found that cats with dementia develop brain changes strikingly similar to ...

The encoded poem is called “Orpheus,” opening with the line “Any style/of life is prim.” When triggered, the microbe ...

“These findings suggest that HNR, particularly its variability, may hold promise as a voice based marker for early detection ...

In a clinic in Jaipur, a low, resonant note from a conch shell echoed through the room—and it’s all for an unlikely therapy.

This deadly disease was believed to arrive with colonizers — but ancient DNA from Chile proves it was here thousands of years ...