Why? Her pet is not a dog or a cat or even a guinea pig, it is a huge snake. The clip shows how the girl not only lets the snake coil around her but pets it too. The video is posted on the ...

When you’re unwinding at home, the last thing you’d expect is a snake slithering out of your couch, let alone one curled up ...

If you encounter a snake but can keep your distance, the snake will nearly always refrain from striking. If you should be bitten, obviously the most important first thing is determining if the snake ...

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. Yet, over time, fear gives way to something else — something bearable. — CS ...

Prakash Mandal, 48, was bitten by a Russell’s Viper, one of the most venomous snakes in the world, on Tuesday evening. Mandal ...

Many were concerned about how many snakes were being spotted in residential ... “They like the tops of wooden fences and seemingly sleeping coiled under trees. Don’t be fooled by the crafty ...

The genetic history of sisters Carolyn Schear (at right) and Cheryl Dinges puts them at risk for fatal familial insomnia, a deadly inability to sleep. Schear learned she doesn’t carry the gene.

Colin Stinton reads the story of the American linguist Daniel Everett, who lived among the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. All human beings need sleep. We spend a third of our ...

A video recorded by a passengers shows a man -- accompanied by IRCTC staff -- grabbing the long snake with the help of a bedsheet and taking it away from the berth.

Again, the air purifying properties of this plant are to thank, with improved air quality resulting in better, deeper sleep. Snake Plants also release oxygen at night and catch dust particles that ...