While shiitakes seem like any other mushroom you'd find at your local market, eating them raw can have a surprising side effect: shiitake flagellate dermatitis. Although it affects only around 2% ...

It is named after its distinguishing feature—the “ancoracyst,” a gun-like organelle that it uses to “shoot” at and immobilize its prey, usually other flagellate species. Janouškovec, a molecular ...

Shi'ite Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bangladesh mark the Ashura festival, which commemorates the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein in 680AD.