Have you ever noticed something new in your fingernails? Perhaps a ridge pattern that wasn’t there before. Maybe their color has changed. These changes can be easy to dismiss, but...

Our hair, it seems, can be a natural air-conditioner; that is, if you possess a curly mane. Indeed, curly hair might have allowed early humans to more efficiently cool themselves...

Like an airline pilot who hardly ever crashes, or a parachute manufacturer that guarantees almost all of its work, a doctor who provides good medical advice most of the time...

As scientists tap the plant world to find new, unexpected therapies for life-threatening maladies, perhaps it’s only natural they would turn to the distinguished pickled caper. After all, capers have...

If you were ever involved in a little navel-gazing — heck, even if you weren’t — you might have found yourself a little curious about bellybutton lint. Specifically, you might...

Not everyone likes cauliflower or broccoli. But when it comes to protecting against infections, your lungs sure do. In particular, it’s the molecules in so-called cruciferous and certain other vegetables...

Smell and memory have long seemed inextricably linked. It’s more than the way a certain aroma can trigger a strong, long-ago memory. Dementia, Alzheimer’s and other disorders involving the brain...

There are many ways to define age. There’s the calendar. There’s how old you feel. And now, artificial intelligence can determine your true biological age by analyzing chest X-rays. So...

Not to be impolite, but the toadfish is kind of ugly. Its name, after all, is derived from its resemblance to a toad. And as faces go, having a toadish...

File this under ‘things you likely didn’t expect to hear in 2023’: Syphilis is raging and an expected penicillin shortage next year is likely to exacerbate the epidemic. Biopharmaceutical company...