Category: 7. SciTech

There’s something living in the fog – but you’ll be glad to know that it’s mostly friendly.

Researchers at Arizona State University and Susquehanna University have found that bacteria are living and growing inside droplets of water in fog, at concentrations comparable to seawater.

While it…

Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch.

Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when she caught the virus, but she remembers it well—along with the oven mitts she was made to wear to stop herself scratching. She also recalls being taken to hang…

A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient’s own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results from two individuals hint at its promise for long-term control of the virus.

As part of a clinical trial, scientists took people’s own immune cells and reprogrammed…

In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane named Peter Aaby, had spent nearly two decades collecting data on 100,000 people living in the mud brick homes of the West African country’s capital.

Aaby and…