A couple of times per day, just wipe down the faucets with a paper towel and soap. The dishwasher is another cleaning ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Whooping cough cases are more than double those seen at the same time last year, with 8,064 cases recorded nationwide so far ...

Cases of group A streptococcus (GAS) have been on the rise in the past decade. The bacteria can cause a range of diseases that span from mild to deadly. In addition, they are diversifying and growing ...

Katarina Zimmer put vinegar to the test as a cleaning product and discovered a wide range of benefits, for people and the ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

Rice is a staple food for billions of people around the planet, but a new study suggests climate change may increase arsenic ...

Bernat Bacete—Getty Images, mrs/Getty Images ... the dirtiest items in our homes because grime is invisible (think bacteria) or accumulates too gradually for us to notice.

The parents of a baby left severely brain damaged by an NHS error have received a £35 million payout. The newborn was ...

A toxin produced by E. coli – the troublesome bug that causes vomiting and fevers – could be behind rising bowel cancer rates ...

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find emissions from ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...