In just a decade, the drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris (C. auris) has emerged as one of the most formidable threats to health care settings worldwide.

They found these obelisks in the gut, mouths, and even in human stool, from people on different continents. Many of these obelisks only loosely resembled each other, so there are likely different ...

A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles fewer than 5 millimeters in size, have infiltrated the ...

The brain is the most well-protected organ in the human body, but it has a surprisingly high amount of microplastic pollution, according to a study published in Nature Medicine on Monday.

An analysis of the gut microbiome in women from four African countries provides crucial data for this under-represented region.

It's the TreeLen Folding Step Stool, and while it won't help you leap tall buildings in a single bound, you will be able to get to that plastic wrap, and confidently take that first step in the ...

Now Google has unveiled a new architecture called Titans, a direct evolution of the Transformer that takes us a step closer to AI that can think like humans. The Transformer architecture has no ...

Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops and called other extreme ...

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"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were able to thrive under harsh conditions," says lead author Dr. Julio Mercader Florín, PhD, a professor in both the Faculty of Arts and the ...

Most human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have been mild so far, and most had known exposure to sick or infected animals. Avian influenza A viruses are very different from human seasonal influenza ...