Archaeologists: Roman soldiers used this built-in fridge to keep their wine cool
Fragments of wine glasses, bowls, and animal bones offer evidence for their last meal.
Science // Science & Exploration
In depression treatment trials, placebo effect is growing stronger
As with placebo pills, time is making placebo magnetic stimulation more effective.
Inside the race to stop a deadly viral outbreak in India
With viral spillovers happening more frequently, containment is a fragile shield.
The history of syphilis is being rewritten by a medieval skeleton
Columbus may not have brought syphilis back to the Old World after all.
RSV vaccine during pregnancy gets seasonal sign-off from CDC
The vaccine is recommended for use only in the run-up to RSV season.
Worm that jumps from rats to slugs to human brains has invaded Southeast US
Multiple rats in Atlanta test positive for calamitous, rapidly spreading parasite.
US to again offer free COVID tests ahead of respiratory virus season
On Monday, households can order 4 free tests with shipments expected to start Oct. 2.
Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead
Any object you create can be thrown back into a coffee grinder and reused on a new object.
New study looks again at how alcohol influences attraction
Yet another look into how alcohol influences interactions with the desired sex.
What can we do about ultraprocessed foods?
Researchers are figuring out the features of these foods that harm our health.
Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams
The lancet liver fluke controls infected ants with a temperature-based on/off switch.
French drillers may have stumbled upon a mammoth hydrogen deposit
A drill site in Lorraine shows rising levels of hydrogen mixed in with methane.
European satellite plunges back to Earth in first-of-its-kind assisted re-entry
"This is quite unique, what we are doing here."
When it comes to keeping the fizz in your champagne, bottle size matters
A 3-liter jeroboam can age for as long as 132 years before going flat.
Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice
"I’ve never seen anything like this."
