Malacologists Ken Hayes and Norine Yeung spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz about native snails and conservation.

In this inspiring TED Talk, ecologist Ludmila Rattis reveals how something as humble as animal waste can restore entire ecosystems. Growing up in rural Brazil, she learned firsthand the value of ...

The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...

Pathogens and parasites, it turned out, were exceedingly common in people living in that area then. For example, the vast ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

In an effort to substantiate an old tale of an Inuit who crafted a knife out of feces, a Kent State University professor ...

Muslims are welcoming the holy month of Ramadan—the most sacred time of the year in Islamic culture. Observed worldwide as a month of fasting and prayer, Ramadan has also been marked for centuries by ...

In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the cave dated to between 660 and 1430 A.D., many of which belonged to ...

It's been close to three decades since Pokémon was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world when Nintendo dropped the first installment in the video game ...

This animated thing takes Roald Dahl’s rather mean-spirited 1980 children’s book about the Twits, an unkempt couple with a ...

If you've been dragging your feet on an OS upgrade, there are a few ways to switch for free. Click the Accept and install button, and your Windows 10 PC will be ...