Therapy dogs can help relieve pain in the ER
They have offered comfort at nursing homes, schools — even disaster sites. Now, a study shows that a 10-minute visit from therapy dogs can help relieve emergency room patients' pain.
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Researcher finds 'stunning' rate of COVID among deer. Here's what it means for humans
Studies on white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania and Ontario offer evidence that the mammals are a reservoir for the coronavirus. What are the implications for the course of SARS-CoV-2?
Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, lost since 1915, is found off Antarctica
An expedition went where few have ever gone to locate the remnants of a ship that became trapped in the ice 106 years ago, dashing the famed explorer's ambitious mission to cross Antarctica.
A man was arrested after hiding 52 reptiles under his clothes at the Mexican border
The 30-year-old U.S. citizen was trying to smuggle 43 horned lizards and nine snakes in small bags into the United States, officials say.
This 10-armed fossil is the oldest known relative of octopuses and vampire squids
Researchers say they've found the oldest known relative of octopuses and vampire squids, in a fossil dug up decades ago in Montana. But unlike octopuses, the creature has 10 arms.
Endurance shipwreck has been discovered in the Antarctic 107 years after sinking
The wreck of the expedition ship the Endurance has been discovered 107 years after it sank in the Antarctic. Explorers and technicians found it in pristine condition under 10,000 feet of icy water.
A man who got the 1st pig heart transplant has died after 2 months
David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig.
'The Man Who Tasted Words' forces readers to question their reality
Most humans walk around feeling like they know what reality is, but the message at the core of Dr. Guy Leschziner's book is that all sensory information we receive is intrinsically ambiguous.
Voters reject spaceport plan long pursued by Georgia county
Critics, including the National Park Service, said exploding rockets after launch could rain fiery debris onto surrounding land, including a federally protected wilderness.
NASA is just now opening a vacuum-sealed sample it took from the moon 50 years ago
Astronauts hammered collection tubes into the lunar surface on the last Apollo mission to the moon. Now a sample is being carefully pierced open — to be analyzed by today's latest tech.