Scrub typhus resurgence in Himalayan tea estates exposing women to health risks, debt amid weak rural healthcare systems.

As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing close behind.

Obscene language tics, called coprolalia, don’t reveal what people with Tourette’s think and feel. In fact, tics often compel people to say or do precisely what they most wish to avoid.

An Australian teenager who died after eating beef sausages on a camping trip has been confirmed as the nation's first death from a tick-induced meat allergy. New South Wales Deputy State Coroner ...

Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others such as ...

What do you see? An optical illusion is dividing the internet over whether the picture is of pink slime or three forks laid out on a hot pink dish towel — and it’s making people’s brains hurt. Deemed ...

You wake up wanting a quick breakfast and expect the usual fast-food scramble. Instead, a Texas woman bit into a Sausage McGriddles and found fragments that looked like teeth, and that moment turned a ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

Some tigers do become serial man-eaters. But the evidence suggests they are driven by necessity rather than preference.