This Is What Actually Helps When Sick with a Cold or Flu
Should you take vitamin C or zinc when you are sick with a common cold or influenza? Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains which at-home remedies actually help.

This Is What Actually Helps When Sick with a Cold or Flu
Should you take vitamin C or zinc when you are sick with a common cold or influenza? Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains which at-home remedies actually help.

Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a race at all yet looks poised to win the…

Miners have unearthed a rare, two-colored natural diamond in Botswana — and experts say it likely formed in two stages.
The diamond is half pink, half colorless. It measures about 1 by 0.63 by 0.57 inches (24.3 by 16 by 14.5 millimeters) and…

Scientists finally know how venomous snakes sink their teeth into prey thanks to a series of high-speed videos.

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…

The skull of pachycephalosaur Zavacephale rinpoche.
Chinzorig…

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…