First death reported in Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City

A Legionnaires’ disease patient has died from the outbreak in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood. City officials ...
Rutland Herald

Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as a source of diarrhea-causing parasite

Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served by Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a ...
ClickOnDetroit

Foodborne illnesses at restaurant chains are rare but can sicken customers, roil businesses

Big U.S. restaurant chains don't get linked to foodborne illness outbreaks often, but the number of meals they serve causes a ...

Bacteria form 'herds' to survive predators, offering fresh insight into Earth's carbon cycle

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that tiny photosynthetic bacteria band together into ...
The Associated Press

As cyclospora illnesses surge to a record, Michigan officials eye lettuce as a possible cause

Infections from the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora are surging, with state-level data suggesting that 2026 is already the nation's worst year for ...

Bacteria Are Thriving In a Radioactive Former Soviet Mine – Leaving Only 5% of The Uranium Behind

The first evidence that bacteria can convert toxic uranium dissolved in water into a stable chemical compound.
Grist

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...
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Bacteria and antibiotics under the microscope

A visual comparison showing how bacteria interact with antibiotics at a microscopic level. Learn more about the science ...
The New Yorker

Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes

On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See 17 Intricate Microscope Photographs That Make the Miniature World Immense. They Won the Evident Image of the Year Contest

The sixth annual competition showcases scientific microscopic imaging, illuminating tiny parts of nature, from individual cells to arthropods, diatoms and a zebrafish brain Carlyn Kranking | Associate ...
IFLScience

RFK Jr Has A History Of Doubting Germ Theory – Here’s How We Know He’s Wrong

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
earth

Common fungus and bacterium can join forces and cause a much more aggressive infection, according to a new study

Scientists have discovered that a common fungus and a common bacterium can combine to injure living tissue far more severely than either microbe does alone. The finding recasts some mixed infections ...