Whales, dolphins and seals live in tight-knit societies that rival primate groups in complexity, and those same bonds are ...

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...

Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

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This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The plastics had only ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 30, 2022. The original video can be viewed here. In January, Uganda declared an end to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that alarmed ...