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In the U.S., tap water is generally safe and not a likely source of brain-eating-amoeba infections, experts told Live Science.

Many deadly infections are transmitted via water, including cholera, typhoid and brain-eating amoebas.

Researchers think climate change will soon cause an increase in the incidence of Naegleria fowleri infections, a “brain-eating” disease.

Firefighters are battling a ‘monster’ wildfire in the evacuated town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.

By turning period blood into a gel, the pad’s alginate powder filler reduces leakage.

Instead of a gold medal, victors at the ancient Greek Panathenaic Games received terra-cotta pots filled with Athenian olive oil from sacred trees.

The discovery of 22,000 previously unseen moonquakes, plus a new idea of what causes them, could help us better prepare for trips there.

Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago.

Lake Kivu, one of the African Great Lakes, sits along a tectonic plate boundary called the East African Rift, which is dotted with hot springs that feed carbon dioxide and methane into the water.

A new standard for codecs used for haptics could revolutionize tele-health and online gaming.