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Smearing yogurt on windows cooled a UK test house by up to 6.3°F in a heatwave, a Loughborough researcher found.

Alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne meat allergy, may affect 450,000 Americans as lone star ticks spread north and west.

The first sugar in interstellar space, erythrulose, was spotted in a Milky Way dust cloud at a frigid -250C.

Stendhal syndrome sends art tourists to a Florence hospital with racing hearts and dizzy spells. One had a heart attack.

Inulin propionate ester (IPE) just won EU approval; 10 g a day curbs appetite by triggering colon hormones.

Odd radio circles are huge unexplained rings, over 50 times the Milky Way's width, seen only at radio wavelengths.

Spontaneous human combustion is pseudoscience; the real cause is the wick effect, where body fat feeds a slow fire.

Transient lunar phenomena, brief lights and glows on the Moon, have been reported for over 1,000 years.

The 1452/1453 mystery eruption blasted 11 megatons of sulfur skyward, a third of Tambora, from an unknown volcano.

Teachers taught spoken Spanish and failed. On the school bus, 400 deaf kids were building their own grammar.