Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

This Is What It’s Like To Be At War With Your Body

The compulsion to be free of a limb is no imaginary…

How Do Bacteria Make Decisions?

Yes. You read the title correctly.

Tempest Prognosticator

How leeches were used to forecast 19th-century storms

Why Should We Care About Bacteria? 

For one thing, they are smarter than us

Poverty Escape Plan Revealed by Computer Model of Economic Vicious Cycles

Infectious disease condemns…

Best of 2013: Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold—Physicists Solve the Mpemba Effect

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