Microbiology

Spanish Flu Pandemic Mass Graves 100 Years Ago Led To Our Zombie Fixation Today

Zombies have lurched to the center of Halloween culture, with costumes proliferating as fast as the monsters themselves. This year, you can dress as a zombie prom queen, a zombie doctor – even a zombie rabbit or banana. The rise of the living dead, though ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 28 2019 - 2:29pm

Grinch Science: Mistletoe Is A Tree-Plundering Parasite

Christmas and mistletoe: have you ever simply asked yourself … why? I have studied plant parasites like mistletoe for almost ten years, and I’m here to tell you that the answer is absolutely fascinating. In Norse mythology, Baldur (younger brother to magi ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 12 2019 - 4:46pm

Lysol, Clorox: With Coronavirus, The Public Has Abandoned Chemophobia

While 2020 looked to be another year when corporate media journalists would provide the same old Product X "linked to" Disease Y "a new study finds" articles as they have for the entire century, the latest coronavirus, COV-19, has saved ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 6 2020 - 4:13pm

Teas, Essential Oils, Tinctures And Colloidal Silver Will Not Help With Coronavirus- Or Anything Else

Once coronavirus made its way into the news cycle, it was only a matter of time before aromatherapy, supplements, miracle food sellers, or some business with "holistic" in its name claimed to treat, prevent, or cure it. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2020 - 1:22pm

Where Coronavirus Really Came From

We haven't had a widespread flu problem since 2018. Yet despite it only being 2020, some insist this year's coronavirus must be the product of government scientists, though some also suggest it was the result of 5G cellular service in Wuhan. The ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2020 - 5:56pm

Here's How Long Coronavirus Remains Infectious On Cardboard, Metal And Plastic

A new study claims the recent form of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes the COVID-19 disease remains far longer in aerosol form than other experiments showed and up to 3 days on some surfaces. The study says the virus is detectable for up to three hour ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2020 - 8:31am

Oxygen Overshoot: The Mass Extinction Of 75 Percent Of Life On Earth

Billions of years ago, an extinction occurred that dwarfed the event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Its history is written in Canadian rocks and show Earth lost nearly 75 percent of its plant and animal species. But it had a benefit for ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2020 - 6:31am

Getting To The Heart Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Co-authored by by Lauren Philippi, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph In late December 2019 an outbreak of pneumonia cases arose in Wuhan, China. Patients presented with an acute respiratory illness linked to the 201 ...

Article - W. Glen Pyle - Mar 30 2020 - 3:00pm

Evolution Could Make Future Viruses Even Weirder: Some Have The Building Blocks For Their Own Metabolism

Though they are called giant viruses they're still among the tiniest denizens of the microbiome. A few genes' worth of DNA or RNA folded into a shell so small you need an electron microscope to see it, more like a stripped-down husk of an organis ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2020 - 10:09am

Over Half Of Brazil's Coronavirus Cases Arrived From Italy- And That Is WHO's Fault

Political critics can argue that the U.S. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 9 2020 - 5:31am