We have been inundated with discussions of viruses but there are other types of microbes out there as well. Fungi, algae, protozoa and of course, bacteria. The latter are not only out there, but...
A priest a lawyer and an engineer are about to be guillotined. The priest puts his head on the block, they pull the rope and nothing happens - he declares that he's been saved by divine...
One of the questions I often get asked is if I worry about running out of topics to write about. Nope. The fertile pastures of science are planted with such a wide array of seeds that the only...
Just four months after Apollo 11鈥檚 historic landing on the moon in 1969, 鈥淚ntrepid,鈥� Apollo 12鈥檚 lunar lander, made a perfect landing. It was expected that in April of 1970, 鈥淎quarius,鈥� Apollo 13鈥檚...
鈥淕entlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.鈥� Those words spoken by Louis Pasteur a century and a half ago are unnervingly meaningful today as we confront the SARS-CoV-2 virus that...
Today it is COVID-19 that is sowing panic around the world but in 19th聽century England the fear was of cholera, a dreadful disease. It causes diarrhea so severe that a victim can lose as much as...
