Using Q-tips to clean the inside of your ear canal can lead to wax impaction, irritation, and even damage to the eardrum.

Scientists discover hedgehogs hear ultrasound, opening the possibility of warning sounds that keep them away from roads.

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A COMMON childhood illness Anna Martin caught during pregnancy caused her daughter Genevieve to be born with lifelong disabilities – despite being reassured by doctors that it was ...

At UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics this week, providers are seeing hand, foot and mouth disease, strep throat, viral upper respiratory infections and human metapneumovirus. Human metapneumovirus ...

It took seventeen years, but someone finally made a great “Avatar” movie — and it’s Daniel Chong’s Pixar movie “Hoppers.” ...

Deveillance’s Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step ...