Being a teacher is so much more than designing lesson plans and explaining the same concepts class after class. Teachers stories, advice, and support can be truly life-changing for a child, and the ...

Not for 100 million years has a normal guinea pig had five toes on each foot. It has had four toes on each front paw, three toes on each hind paw, a total of fourteen. In this decade, however, guinea ...

Few laymen have ever heard of the golden hamster—but they are likely to hear of it from now on. Thousands of hamsters are being raised in U.S., British and Canadian laboratories. The furry, ...

A new vaccine prevented guinea pigs from catching Lyme disease from infected ticks in a recent study. Whether it works in humans remains to be seen. "This is the proof-of-concept that this is possible ...

Do you like being poked, prodded, and analyzed? If you said yes, then you may have a future as an astronaut. Astronauts don’t just conduct scientific experiments, they are part of an experiment ...

The U.S. government drilled a hole into retired Air Force Col. Robert Lindseth’s heart more than 60 years ago because the country wanted to go to the moon and it was not sure how to get there and back ...