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A large international study involving more than 130, 000 people from 17 countries published recently in The Lancet (general medical...

Go is an ancient strategy board game that’s been popular for at least 2,500 years.

Like all living things, bacteria constantly evolve to survive. Encountering a new antibiotic, they quickly find ways to evade it....

A dog is known as “man’s best friend”. Dogs have held jobs for centuries. These working canines certainly deserve recognition....

Stories from biblical scholars suggest tilapia was the fish used by Jesus to feed the crowd at the Sea of...

Tennis-ball sized nodules are formed over millions of years and present on much of the world’s seabeds. The nodules contain...

It is estimated that a total of 100 million carats of 90% gem quality diamonds have been produced from the...

NAMIBIA, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. Namibia...

The oldest reference to the domestic cat is a picture of one found on an Egyptian tomb dating back to...

Microorganisms have been used in the preparation of not only medicine, but have also been used in producing basic food...

Camellia, the beautiful, flowering shrub, is an Asian flowering plant. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the...

A WHITE, square spaceship-like structure anchored amidst a sea of high-rise buildings in Shinjuku, one of the busiest shopping areas...

The Koukokuji Buddhist Temple in downtown Tokyo has 400 years history, but its “Ruriden columbarium” offers a high-tech futuristic resting...

'Obon’ is one of the most important Japanese traditions. It is an annual Buddhist event for commemorating one’s ancestors. It...

According to an extensive analysis of historical cyclone data, nearly 65 percent of typhoons now reach category 3 or higher,...

Extreme weather across southern Europe has fueled thousands of small wildfire and a few large blazes in July and August...