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Author: Donald G. McNeil Jr. / Source: New York Times Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times The measles outbreak continues to spread in the United States, surpassing 700 cases this year, federal health officials said on Monday. The virus has now been found in 22 states. More than 500 of the 704

Author: Daniel Hernandez / Source: L.A. TACO A spike in measles cases in California and a cluster of cases in Los Angeles County have prompted local officials to quarantine more than 900 people this week in an effort to contain a possible outbreak of the highly infectious disease. [Post updated

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura Several types of creatures make themselves at home on the tippy-tops of buildings. You have your gargoyles, their stone gazes fixed forever on the horizon, and pigeons, their poop splattered in putrid white polka dots. And, on some urban

Source: Dumb Little Man We all have a place in the world that we want to visit more than anywhere else. Usually, it’s a far-flung place, steeped in history and a culture that is the complete opposite to our own. The one problem though is funding it. Holidays of a lifetime don’t come cheap and if

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News In between the “big ones,” millions of tiny, undetected earthquakes rumble through the ground. Now, a new study uncovers a decade’s worth of such “hidden” quakes in Southern California, increasing the number of quakes logged in the region tenfold.