WATCH: Bug-Like Virus Stabs Germs With Tiny Needle
It's the smallest armor-piercing weapon in the biological universe. That's how some have described the microscopic "needle" that a family of odd-l...
It's the smallest armor-piercing weapon in the biological universe. That's how some have described the microscopic "needle" that a family of odd-l...
Seth Mnookin | Posted 03.05.2012
The seemingly never-ending contraction of the media industry has resulted in a shedding of specialists in every journalistic medium. That does not, however, mean that the public's hunger for information about science, medicine and technology is shrinking.
Edward J. Sylvester | Posted 01.27.2012
The Obama administration has been moving in the right direction in improving research funding for emerging pandemic viruses such as H5N1, but much needs to be done to assure that efforts to prevent the next lethal outbreak don't inadvertently lead to it.
Posted 10.31.2011
PRESS ASSOCIATION - Future cancer treatments could consist of genetically modified viruses that infect and destroy tumours, new research suggests. ...
James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Our eyes are far too good for us. They show us so much that we can't take it all in, so we shut out most of the world, and try to look at things as br...
Nathan Bransford | Posted 05.25.2011
Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies? There are pernicious writerly germs out there infecting pages all around the world. Left uncured th...
Gina Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
Scientific studies have shown that soaps with Triclosan or Triclocarban are not any more effective at preventing disease than regular soap, but they are more harmful to the humans who use them.
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
We are in the grips of a military-industrial complex for whom projects such as the Boston Biolab are as much meat and potatoes as any multi-billion dollar weapon system, no matter how dubious the need.
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011
We have been dealing with economic swine flu for the better part of two years now. The speculative fever that gripped the world moved like a virus. Almost all were infected.
Anne Dunev | Posted 11.17.2011
Studies indicate it is not the cold of winter that causes an increase in flu, but the lowered humidity.
AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 05.25.2011
From iPods to navigation systems, some of today's hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory _ pre-instal...
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
SEATTLE — Near-perfect knockoffs of 21 different Microsoft programs began surfacing around the world just over a decade ago. Soon, PCs in more ...
Salon.com's "The Machinist" Blog | Posted 05.25.2011
If you're running a Mac and are in the mood for some free porn today, do not, while visiting a site purporting to offer such goodies, linger upon a We...
The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 04.12.2012