Every year, spring brings with it the promise of sunshine, mild weather, gentle breezes, and of course, pollen, dust, and all the other microscopic nuisances that aggravate people’s allergies. Normally, this would be a minor inconvenience: some sneezing here, a scratchy cough there, these are all the hallmarks of allergy season, no need for worry.

Despite millions of deaths, trillions of dollars in lost industry, the shuttering of most of the developing world, and the complete shifting of our global culture, the popular theory that the coronavirus came from bats is still being challenged by scientists today. Their consensus: the ‘coronavirus bats’ theory just doesn’t fly. Coronavirus in Bats: A

As if this decade couldn’t get any worse, people are starting to panic about an infestation of flying spiders in various places across Texas and all the way up to Chicago. Yes, you read that right: flying spiders. Move over, executioner wasps, there’s a new nightmare in town. What Are Flying Spiders? Before you yell

Most medicine we take come with side effects: dizziness, nausea, maybe even some unintended bowel movement in some. And most of the time, these side effects are pretty minor and unnoticeable, especially if you have no history of allergies or contraindications. But even if you develop the side effects, they’re usually not that weird: a

Lifestyle diseases, or LD, are a particular class of diseases that are borne about by unhealthy lifestyle choices. On one hand, they’re non-communicable, which means you won’t be infecting anybody anytime soon. But on the other hand, they’re pretty serious and life-threatening. LD’s are dangerous because people who develop then rarely have any warning signs