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The old man yet lived, only because he was useful. He sat on a rickety wooden stool, alone, centred in the dim shop and staring down at his work; staring, unblinking and unmoving, for hours,...

Every now and then in life you read something you’re convinced was made especially for you, as if it’s been tailored specifically to your personal sensibilities. I almost always feel this way when reading Kate Beaton’s...

Quick — blurt out the first thing that comes to your head when you think about the Library of Congress. Stuffy and silent? Display cases filled with untouchable relics? People in funny-looking white wigs?...

A controversial 2009 paper that linked a mouse retrovirus to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been through dozens of criticisms and a partial retraction. Now, after a nine-lab study showed that the retrovirus could...

Dreams are a peculiar aspect of the human mind, and the scientific study of dreaming — oneirology — seeks to illuminate this phenomena. Reported in the Nov. 8 issue of Current Biology, a recent experiment...

Students, faculty, and administration should experience better performance from the university e-mail system starting in the new year. After the university experienced an e-mail outage in December, Information Services and Technology (IST) transferred the...

John Akii-Bua likely never intended to become a hurdle runner. Born in 1949, he arrived in Kampala, Uganda to join the police force at age 16. Uganda was still under British colonial rule at...