Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. If you ...

You can take certain steps to lower your chances of becoming an unwitting host to one of these nasties. Practicing basic ...

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites – the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite's ...

Pinworm at the institute for parasitology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in Munich, Germany. DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from ...

Nearly two miles away from Stonehenge, there is a large Neolithic settlement known as Durrington Walls, believed to be where the people who built the famous site camped during the main stage of ...

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