Chicken and Waffle Nachos (Quite Delish)Why Didn't...  ...Didn't Europeans Get Wiped Out By Native American Diseases ? (Today I Found Out)One Chihuahua Has Stopped An...

An article on scurvy opens up with the story of the Norwegian whaling station named Smeerenburg, which was abandoned every winter during the off season. When someone got the great idea to leave seven men there all winter...

Artist Odra Noel, who trained as a doctor,...  ...ous human tissues (and how they relate to various diseases ) to represent each continents. Link - via NewScie...  ...opulation, suffers greatly from neurodegenerative diseases , including dementia (neurones, brain tissue)....  ...here the leading cause of death a...

[http://youtu.be/Gy42CoyqKjE] (YouTube link)Researchers from University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) Medical School observed how viruses infect cells and mad...

Fifty years ago, Dr. Michael Alpers went to Papua...  ...p devoting his life to solving the mystery of the disease . Today, the decades of research by many scientist...  ...ouple of years later, field surveys confirmed the disease had died out in children younger than 10 —...  ...ything fitted. Why did wom...

Bees have an impressive sense of smell and New...  ...erculosis by the faint floral odor victims of the disease develop. “When we tested them with the tubercu...  ...are training bees to associate the smell of the disease with a sweet treat and to stick out their tongues...

Bill Gates is only 56 years old, but he stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft a decade ago. He'd still be the richest man in America if he and his wife Melinda hadn't been so busy giving money away. And instead of just do...

In 1983, more than 10,000 transfusion recipients w...  ...O report looked at data regarding HIV and related diseases and "additional infectious agents" in the donor p...  ...verall population. What SaBTO found is that these diseases can be reliably screened for at the time of donat...  ...between nine days and 1...

If you grew up playing the game Oregon Trail,...  ...the measles. Hey, at least you learned about the diseases , right? Mental_floss takes a look at how bad thos...  ...right? Mental_floss takes a look at how bad those diseases really were at the time the West was being settle...

Smallpox was the first disease to be declared completely eradicated. Last year,...  ...nd other cloven-hoofed animals, became the second disease completely wiped from the earth by human interven...  ...of “big animal” veterinarians, who fought the disease in remote and somet...