Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Far-right activist Jack Posobiec traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and was in the room when the secretary greeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

While the virus may be hitting people hard right now, and the flu season is far from ending, some infectious disease experts think ... actually be circulating can be challenging, and minor ...

Far smaller and far slower social changes in earlier periods triggered civil wars, rebellions, and violent intellectual and spiritual crises. The extreme social transformations of this century have ...

The Highly Pathogenic avian influenza virus is a highly contagious disease that spreads among birds and other animals.

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Award-winning science journalist and author Carl Zimmer details the dangers of new viruses, air pollution and wildfires on ...

It wasn’t until after Martin Niemöller, a Lutheran pastor, ended up in a Nazi concentration camp that he realized he should ...

In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the ...

Difficult to detect because of late onset of symptoms, such diseases can spread at an accelerated rate before large-scale trends can be picked up by surveillance systems. This has been the case ...

Doctors say you should seek medical treatment for these viruses if you develop the following symptoms: trouble breathing, pain or pressure in the chest, and a fever above 100.4 degrees that lasts more ...