From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

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An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Since the first publication in 1914 it has passed through eight editions in the United States—a sufficient proof of its utility as “a comparatively comprehensive reference book for use in the ...

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...

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India has slammed Pakistan for its “unjustified” reference to Jammu and Kashmir in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with New Delhi asserting that such remarks will neither validate ...

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by seemingly innocuous things — common bacteria in “The War of the Worlds,” water in “Signs” — is not new in science fiction. The so-called Reapers that appear out of the blue to kill ...