Antipodes

In a living-room aquarium, in spite of its five horizontal blue stripes from head to tail, the zebrafish [ Danio rerio ], about 5 cm long, ...

A scientific report from Sydney University on the carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian devil [ Sarcophilus harrisii ], found o...

Nobody imagines a medical doctor, today,without a stethoscope . I've just noticed that today happens to be the inventor's birt...

Over the last week or so, countless articles in the media have described the use of fluorescent kittens in a US laboratory—the Mayo Clinic i...

Why is it that almost everything in our modern world—the best of all possible worlds, as Voltaire 's optimistic Candide once assured us...

The old-fashioned American gesture of holding a hat over one's heart is hilarious, like the opening of some kind of Stetson song-and-dan...