Roberto Bubas is an Argentine wildlife ranger who grew up admiring Jacques Cousteau, the French marine researcher who travelled the seven seas in his mythical boat, the Calypso. When he… 

  Researchers that stirred controversy in 2015 by claiming that cancer was mostly due to mutation are back. This time, however, they did their homework. They backed up their point… 

  That friendship is vital was obvious to the wise of the ancient world. Indeed, Aristotle devotes to friendship two of the ten books that make up the Nicomachean Ethics.… 

A recent report by the BBC discusses the uses of swearing and finds some surprising benefits to it. It also debates the merits of quoting swear words in referred speech… 

  Very often, the simplest ideas can be the most successful ones. Nobody in his right mind would think that a boring podcast would have any use. Yet it does,… 

  According to Jewish law, boys come of age at 13. This opportunity is marked with the Bar Mitzvah ritual. Yet Yisrael Kristal had to wait a century to celebrate… 

  For those of us who consider ourselves serious journalists, Hollywood gossip does not even begin to amount to a guilty pleasure. It is as much of a guiltless distraction… 

  A newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals that the sugar industry funded research that shifted attention towards fatty foods away from the effects of sugar on health. It all… 

  Ever since they were first tinned in the 1880s in Europe (it is hard to pinpoint a precise place and date), sardines have been the humble and hurried man’s… 

  The National Institutes of Health, a U.S. federal agency and a major research center, is studying the implications of human cell growth in non-human non-primate embryos. The clarification may…