For most people, water is harmless, even comforting. It cools the body on hot days, washes away dirt, and makes up nearly 60 percent of the human body itself. But for a tiny number of people around the world, contact with water can trigger painful, itchy hives within minutes. The condition, known as Aquagenic urticaria,…

Image: Left/Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul/Right/Canva Scientists have found the remains of a huge 90-foot dinosaur in Thailand, thus confirming the discovery of the biggest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia. The recently discovered species called Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis is a very large sauropod dinosaur that lived in the region some 113 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous…

There is a special kind of tyranny in being born into a world designed for somebody else’s hand. The scissors are wrong. The classroom desk is wrong. The ink smudges the wrong way. The handshake, the ritual, the factory machine, the spiral notebook, the cricket field, the guitar, the language itself, all seem to whisper…

At an age when most teenagers are focused on schoolwork and video games, Taylor Wilson was attempting something that even advanced laboratories struggle to achieve. Working from his parents’ garage in Reno, Nevada, the 14-year-old successfully built a functioning nuclear fusion device known as a fusor. Using vacuum chambers, high-voltage equipment, deuterium gas and self-taught…