Most everyone knows that fruit flies gravitate toward bananas and most overripe fruit and almost magically appear in kitchens around the world. Less well known is that this insect species has been used by thousands of scientists around the world for more than 100 years to study genetics and developmental biology.

Joy Reid is a liberal MSNBC host (I know, redundant) who hates Donald Trump.

While leprosy is classified as rare, it still strikes some 200,000 people a year, including 200 in the United States.

Dr. Otis R. Bowen was born Feb. 26, 1918, in Rochester.

Nerve gases paralyze the nervous system and are the deadliest weapons used in chemical warfare. They are odorless, stable, easily dispersed and invisible, and have rapid effects when absorbed through the skin, swallowed or inhaled.

As the “go to site” for city information, our newly redesigned City of Warsaw website (www.warsaw.in.gov) has added another critically important public service feature.

Facebook is being criticized these days for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary began 50 years ago.

I always thought that “Good Friday” was an interesting concept. How could anything be good about a day over 2,000 years ago when an innocent man was crucified on a cross?

The symmetrical heart symbol is a far cry from the actual fist-sized mass of tissue we all carry inside of us.

This past week youths all across America walked out of class in schools in an effort to prod adults all across America to do something about gun violence. I think it’s a good thing to exercise your right to free speech and assembly.

Robert Frost, one of America's great poets, wrote: "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

For those of us who travel frequently, there is another major hazard to consider — bed bugs! Once nearly eradicated, these blood suckers have made a rapid comeback in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.

While I was not witness to the demise of passenger pigeons, my mother was, and so was anyone else alive in 1914.

The national conversation has turned once again to guns following a mass shooting in Florida by a 19-year-old miscreant named Nikolas Cruz.

I have taken a keen interest in the process of aging and all that it entails the older I become. One reason may be the change in attitude regarding the perception of what it means to all of us.

President Donald Trump came out with his plan to rehabilitate the nation’s infrastructure last week.

Not long ago, the prospect of living in Mom and Dad’s basement after college made students cringe.

Emery Rovenstine was a dominant figure in anesthesiology in the United States between 1935 and 1960. His extraordinary research and writings had an enormous impact on the specialty and continue to this very day.

This week, a compendium of things that just seem a little bit off to me.

Back in December, the Warsaw Community School Corporation Board of Trustees passed a resolution to extend board members’  term limits.

When it comes to the Russian collusion investigation, I can say with certainty I have never seen anything quite like this before.

Calculus was defined by humorist Dave Barry as “the branch of mathematics that is so scary it causes everybody to stop studying mathematics.”

Following are some things I think are odd.

Dogs have a scent sensitivity many thousands of times greater than humans. In fact, this ability is one of the more curious facts in nature. Humans, however, and other primates have relatively good senses of smell.