Farmland often harbors a multitude of pathogens which attack plants and reduce yields. A research team has now shown that inoculating the soil with mycorrhizal fungi can help maintain or even improve ...

THE MOST dramatic showdown between humans and smallpox probably took place in Europe in the 18th century. The disease had by then been gathering momentum for a couple of hundred years, and despite the ...

Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today's ...

Artist unknown, "The cowpox afflicted hand of Sarah Nelmes" (1798), hand-colored engraving on paper, 244 x 207 mm (all images courtesy the Posner Memorial Collection, Carnegie Mellon University ...

Bad presidents may leave (hopefully) and effective vaccines may arrive (eventually), but there’s not a ton of hope regarding the horrific effects of climate change. Shot in 2019 but filled with eerily ...

Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for false claims about voting irregularities. But misinformation rarely gets severely punished, and it remains an enormous problem in ...