Parasites: from pests to puppeteers

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

Winter is the busiest season for your immune system. An onslaught of cold air, close contact and a crowded calendar that includes a party season filled with late nights, large meals and, possibly, a l

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

F or more than a century, psychiatry has ...

Stefan Buczacki

When famed country singer Willie Nelson’s home caught fire in 1969, he fought his way through the flames to rescue his best friend and bandmate, Trigger. Fifty-six years later, they’re still making mu