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Flesh Eating Bacteria sounds like an urban legend. Let me assure you that it is not. Man contracts flesh-eating bacteria during beach trip with...

The misuse of antibiotics has already led to the emergence of a huge number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could potentially threaten the future health of the human species. As...

That's a groundbreaking discovery! Scientists have successfully eliminated HIV-1 DNA, the virus responsible for AIDS, from the genomes of living animals in what could be a step towards...

A man tried mixing cocaine and pufferfish... And it didn't end well! Mixing cocaine and pufferfish fugu is bad. Picture by Tadaimajp

When it comes to choosing a forever furry friend, most people tend to exhibit the same habits as choosing a romantic partner. What they say they want in...

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office put out an SOS In the next few decades, the federal debt is expected to rise to the highest level since World War...

A new report says the world is on its way toward "climate apartheid." Think: wealthier people dodging the effects of climate change by paying to escape floods and...

An instructor and two children pour three cups of powder into a bin of red liquid. Suddenly — poof — a cloud of what looks like cotton candy...

Frozen sperm samples can remain viable after exposure to microgravity conditions that are somewhat similar to those found in space, new research reveals. The findings suggests that at...

I knew the stuff I am now using everyday is beneficial. Yes my cbd drops are becoming a weapon in the war against drug-resistant superbugs.

If feel like a guinea pig. They are playing with our health! Independent lab tests found high levels of the toxic metal arsenic in two brands of bottled...

“Cure-alls” rarely cure anything, let alone everything, and the so-called “magic cards” being sold in Thailand are no different. Even more problematic than being at best a placebo...

A 20-year-old woman in Pakistan reported to her doctors that she was having difficulties having sex with her husband. Penetration wasn't possible. The woman had a "blind vagina"...

Drinking alcohol is known to raise women's risk of developing breast cancer. But many women aren't aware of this link. Alcohol boosts risk of breast...

While the health hazards of e-cigarettes are still being studied, one danger seems clear... Sometimes, they explode. That was the case for a teenage boy who was seriously injured...

Could married men become Catholic priests? In a historic shift, the Vatican will consider ordaining older married men as priests to address the shortage of clergy in remote...

My cousin in England told her colleagues she wanted a Mariah Carey birthday cake. They misunderstood, and is the cake they made her instead. It’s Marie Curie, looking very festive. pic.twitter.com/LMHJnMATqD— Harriet...

Most of the time, breast milk comes from, well, the breast. However, in one particularly unusual case, an Austrian woman started lactating from her vulva. So why ?

Ebola, which was spreading rapidly but is now contained within the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now spread to Uganda. A 5-year-old Congolese boy who traveled to Uganda...

A terrifying diagnosis turned into a scene from a horror movie when a woman's brain tumor turned out to actually be a parasite. Yes doc! It was...

In a horrifying tweet for the ages, a woman who says she is a nurse claimed she had seen several patients this week who had attempted to speed up their period through...

Japan is preparing to restart commercial whaling next month for the first time in 30 years, after its controversial withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC). On July...

A new report has warned there's an existential risk to humanity from the climate crisis within the coming decades. And a "high likelihood of human civilization coming to...

Sebastião Salgado returned home to Brazil in 1994 after spending years abroad, expecting to find comfort in the tree-covered rainforest paradise he'd left behind.  However, when he...

A few weeks ago, I was writing about the huge piles of garbage that are inundating streets with rats and disease in downtown Los Angeles. Such horror doesn't...

A mysterious new virus is slowly but surely creeping through rural corners of China. Up until recently, the cause of the illness was not clear, but a new...

Pakistan said on Sunday more than 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a village in southern Sindh province. "Some 681 people, of which 537 were children from...

The U.S. birthrate fell again in 2018, to 3,788,235 births — representing a 2% drop from 2017. It's the lowest number of births in 32 years, according to a new federal report....

France has threatened three French journalists with potential jail time for using secret documents to reveal the country's involvement in the Yemen civil war. They could face up to five years in prison...

A series of Earth-shattering volcanic eruptions in Iceland during the Middle Ages may have spurred the people living there to turn away from their pagan gods and convert to Christianity. But why would volcanic...

Chemical sprying is real, harmful, colorful and somehow captivating. Look at the two videos below. The first video shows 'condensation traces' from Boeing 787 aircraft Dreamliner, say experts. Such condensation trails from aircraft were officially recognized...

A mysterious illness paralysing suddenly hundreds of children across the US continues to alarm and puzzle scientists. Children have shown up at hospitals unable to move their arms or legs. Dozens of kids have become...

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans streamed across the border from the town of San Antonio del Tachira into Cucuta, Colombia on Sunday, July 17, 2016. This, to stock up on food, home goods and medicine...

Hawaii has more than 250 confirmed cases of dengue fever. No cases of the Zika virus have been found yet but there's concern that the islands could be at risk because mosquitoes that can carry dengue...

The only known wild jaguar in the United States has been captured roaming around a creek and other parts of a mountain range near Tucson, Arizona. Watch the first publicly released video of the giant...

And suddenly a giant wolf appeared on the snowy flank of Gongga Mountain in China's Sichuan Hailuogou National Forest Park. And the natural phenomenon behind the 'Wolf Totem' is just as stunning as the ghostly wolf apparition...

The Day of the Skull takes place every year in Bolivia on November 8. Skulls are decorated and taken to a cemetery in La Paz a week after All Saints Day. The skulls are cared for...

An ‘impressive’ heat difference between the blocks has been found at four of Egypt’s pyramids, including the famous Great Pyramid of Giza. The finding has been uncovered by a international project called Scan Pyramids aiming at debunking...

That Shaolin monk transcended himself to run on water for 125 meters, breaking his own record. Check out this incredible video of a Shaolin monk walking on water for 125 meters, using 200 floating plywood...

Are humanity and goodness incompatible? If so, we suggest you restore faith in humanity and kindness through these pictures, showing us that the human being is capable of the best ... and not just the worst. Enjoy. 1....