European typhus fever, also called “spotted fever” and “ship fever,” is not to be confused with typhoid fever. For generations it was the scourge of armies, and it still flourishes in Poland, Russia ...

(CN) — New research out of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Tuesday identified the first Canaanite sentence, dating back to 1700 B.C. But it wasn’t discovered on a wall, tablet or tombstone. It ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an easier method of killing lice and their eggs in hair," said an inventor, from La Marque, Texas, "so I invented the BLUE LICE REMOVAL.

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lice have plagued humankind throughout history. Spreading from person to person by close contact, they latch onto hair with ...