Scores of households lost valuable electronic appliances and gadgets owing to power fluctuations caused by lightning during the recent thunderstorm.

This is in addition to the hundreds of houses that were flooded due to the downpour.

University of Minnesota. Driven to Discover.

The results of a randomized clinical trial in Slovenia suggest that a 7-day course of antibiotics for a rash caused by Lyme disease is noninferior to a 14-day course, researchers reported yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The year 1949 brought America a book that provided a look into the future, through the eyes of George Orwell.

It wasn’t nearly the bad year we feared, although it took a long time for people to break from the catchphrase “That looks or sounds like something from 1984.”