In the early hours of April 15th, 1912, over the course of 2 hours and 40 minutes, the RMS Titanic sunk. It鈥檚 believed that upwards of 1500 people died in the accident, however, amongst the...
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...
Infectious diseases have a long history. The first epidemics were probably caused by the variola virus that causes smallpox. The disease commonly spreads through skin-to-skin contact or contact...
The Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. is under pressure to fast track drugs that may be helpful in the treatment of COVID-19. Remdesivir, originally approved for Ebola, may be helpful, as...
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