The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s ...

I remember the day I got obsessed with a tiny, see-through worm. I was in a classroom at Northeastern University, where I worked at the time, giving a science-communication workshop to a group of ...

Its body seemed lengthy, although obscured by lilac clusters, and I wasn’t interested in picking one up for a measurement. UC researchers say adult horsehair worms measure 1/25 inch in diameter ...

If you aren’t one of the 5 million people who’ve watched a 9-second video of a bizarre purple worm vomit a milky living tree all over a random man’s hand (perhaps in Thailand, judging from ...

According to legend, this earthen architecture city owes its existence to a magic worm. In the epic poem, Shahnameh, by Persian poet Ferdowsi, a girl was spinning cotton when she discovered a worm ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present.

Poetry is sometimes closer to dramatic truth than history itself. Around 27 million Soviet citizens died in WWII, according to official estimates. Even though words can hardly wipe out the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced recently the government would stop recommending routine Covid vaccinations. “The CDC and HHS encourage individuals to talk with their healthcare ...

After dropping, extending, and scrubbing the blades of over 20 different tape measures with 60-grit sandpaper, we found that the best one is the classic 25-foot Stanley PowerLock Tape Measure.

The first part of the Season of the Worm Cult in The Elder Scrolls Online is finally here, and so are the extensive patch notes of this meta-shaking update. In true ESO fashion, the update brings ...