Category: 1. Edi-Choice

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand has had part of his bowel surgically removed after he ingested nearly 200 high-powered magnets.

According to a recent case report, the child presented to Tauranga Hospital with abdominal pain, admitting to…

There’s a new moon in town — sort of. 

The much-discussed 2025 PN7, dubbed Earth’s “second moon,” is officially a quasi-moon, according to NASA, which confirmed the designation this week. 

First spotted by researchers…

A Hurricane Watch is up for the south coast of Haiti and a Tropical Storm Watch for Jamaica as newly-formed Tropical Storm Melissa chugs west across the central Caribbean. Melissa is gathering strength over near-record-warm Caribbean waters…

Imagine you’re at the grocery store, standing before a selection of snacks. Seemingly without thinking, you skip over the rice crackers to pick out a bag of chips.

These types of choices are called dietary decisions. It’s how we consider many…

MultiModalGraphics is an R/Bioconductor package that leverages object-oriented S4 classes to visualize multimodal biological data with embedded statistical annotations. Originally developed for collaborative multi-omics studies [23,24,25], the…

Watch These Parasitic Worms Use Static Electricity as a Tractor Beam

By Cody Cottier edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier

Onlookers were dazzled on the night of Oct. 16 when a bright green fireball blazed earthward in the skies over several Eastern Seaboard U.S. states, leaving a short-lived glowing trail in its wake as it streaked earthward before flaring and…