The researchers in that experiment didn’t use human subjects, however, so they couldn’t say whether the permethrin kept ticks from biting. Other research has used human test subjects ...

This human fat was employed to the extent of many tons by the soap boilers and tallow chandlers of Paris for the manufacture ot soap and candles. The French are a people of fine sentiment ...

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Narrator: Cheetahs are the fastest land animal in the world. But did you know that humans can leave them in the dust? At least, in the long run. That's right, when it comes to endurance ...

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For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch. By Carl Zimmer As soon as you put starch in your mouth ...