With bird flu cases continuing to rise across the U.S., and a teenager now in critical condition in Canada after contracting the virus, alarm bells are sounding over how big the outbreak could become.

In a recent article, a number of scientists at Stanford (Protsiv et al.) raised the puzzling question of why the average human body temperature has decreased since the Industrial Revolution. Our ...

The human race is a peculiar one: we have advanced so much as a species, yet have done incalculable harm to ourselves in the process. Constantly simmering at the ...