Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

New research shows that nanoplastics in water can strengthen bacteria, raising concerns about drinking water safety.

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"It’s like a new world that we didn’t know existed before," one Eastern Connecticut State University researcher said.

Tiny plastic particles may be quietly reshaping microbial life in drinking water systems. Nanoplastics already raise fears because people can ingest them directly. Now scientists say these tiny partic ...

You may have seen people on social media spritzing hypochlorous acid on their faces, bedding, countertops, and dog blankets.

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

Human health risks from direct consumption of toxic nanoplastics are already scary, but researchers have confirmed that nanoplastics in water give rise to an additional threat: They strengthen ...

Emerging and re-emerging viral threats continue to pose critical challenges to global health security. Despite substantial advances in our understanding of ...

While you probably aren’t going to get sick from just being outside in all this microbe rain, pathogenic organisms are ...

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.