About 6,000 years ago, a bacterium underwent a few genetic changes. These allowed it to expand its habitat from the guts of mice to that of fleas. Such changes happen all the time, but in this particular instance the transformation ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 27, 2014
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The choppers swoop in, dumping insecticide over a plague-stricken village in Madagascar's stunning central highlands.
Ecology
May 19, 2014
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You can learn a lot from a tooth. Molars taken from skeletons unearthed by work on a new London railway line are revealing secrets of the medieval Black Death—and of its victims.
Archaeology
Mar 30, 2014
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Work to expand the Uffizi Gallery's exhibit space has unearthed an ancient cemetery with dozens of skeletons archaeologists say might have been victims of the plague or some other epidemic that swept through Florence during ...
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2014
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An invertebrate ecologist says a recent low-speed train collision in Perth attributed to Portuguese millipedes (Ommatoiulis moreleti) on the tracks is a symptom of growing millipede numbers in WA.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2013
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For nearly 80 years, the North American cicada Okanagana viridis has received little attention in scientific literature, but a new article in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America provides the first notes on ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2013
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Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death—a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city ...
Archaeology
Mar 15, 2013
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The plague-causing bacteria Yersinia pestis evades detection and establishes a stronghold without setting off the body's early alarms. New discoveries reported this week help explain how the stealthy agent of Black Death ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 13, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A more than 50-year-old question has now been answered. Chemists and microbiologists at the Biological Chemistry Center at Umeå University in Sweden are now able to describe in detail the role of calcium in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2012
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(AP)—A squirrel population boom is menacing fruit growers and others in some patches of the country.
Ecology
Oct 16, 2012
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