The man in his forties, who asked to go by his chosen pseudonym, has an increasingly debilitating addiction to yaba, a drug mixing methamphetamine and caffeine, which is destroying lives in Bangladesh ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a spectacular, strange and often historically wayward journey through Homer, archaeology ...

I am in my home town of Edinburgh and my breakfast of choice would usually be a longed-for Scottish morning roll filled with ...

Part 1. Opium in antiquity. The mysterious origins of the opium poppy ; Papyruses and poppies ; A journey around the Mediterranean. Part 2. Opium and the birth of modern medicine. Classic cures, ...

Like many people, I have always thought pigeons to be annoying, dirty germ-carriers that bully away smaller, prettier birds. But Brian Buckbee’s memoir “We Should All Be Birds” has changed my ...

A small, brightly colored parrot that had been recorded only once in the past century has been rediscovered in a remote Indonesian forest. According to Smithsonian magazine, ornithologist John ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. An albatross is a large, ...

00pium was founded around 2019 or 2020 by Playboi Carti and producer OpiumBaby. The label became a vessel for one of Carti's obsessions: dark, industrial, avant-garde production that pushed rap into ...

Steffini Stalos, DO, FCAP, is a pathology and lab medicine physician. She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates, LLC. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration ...