As the Arctic’s permafrost thaws, deadly microbes are being released, causing problems for humans and animals.
All participants used multiple sources of information and support as they weighed the risk from anthrax against the advantages and disadvantages of antibiotics. We found that nonadherent ...
Turkey vultures deter predators by projectile vomiting gastric juices as acidic as battery acid that burns their attacker's ...
Objective: To evaluate the anthrax-protective effect of beta1,3-glucan immune modulators (PGG-glucan and WGP beta glucan) in an experimental animal model. Design: Beta1,3-glucan immune modulators ...
At the end of World War II, the Japanese Unit 731 planned a biological attack on the United States. Tokyo had the ...
Nineteen hippos have died in Zimbabwe in the past three months most likely due to a lack of adequate food because of severe ...
Jan. 10, 2025 — The way cricket frogs move across the surface of water has long been thought to resemble walking on water, but researchers have now discovered a different ...
With rare exceptions like the oral polio vaccine and intranasal vaccines against influenza, the majority of immunizations are ...
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An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice ...
A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences as the theory of evolution by natural selection was for biology.
In the world's deepest undersea chasm, more than 6.7 miles from the Pacific Ocean's surface, Dawn Wright embarked on a mission in a never-before-seen area of the Challenger Deep. But she soon ...