For years, public-health authorities downplayed the risk that pathogens could spread via droplets light enough to circulate ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

NASA researchers suggest that adding microbes to space habitats could help astronauts' immune systems stay stronger.

Knowable Magazine By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists have found microbes living in thin air ...

“We’re shedding microbes off our skin all the time,” and there are more of them in buildings with low air flow than the microbes in your backyard. Some indoor environments are more ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

In “Air-Borne,” the New York Times science writer Carl Zimmer seeks to explain how public-health officials could have overlooked such an important mechanism of the Covid-19 contagion.