History is littered with “wild” ideas that experts once mocked, only to embrace them later when evidence piled up. Nowhere is ...

September 25 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the most important scientist you’ve never heard of. His name was Agostino Bassi, and he was the first person to identify the specific ...

With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a ...

There are few scientific advances that have had such a dramatic impact on the course of human history as the theory that disease is caused by microorganisms. The germ theory, as it is now universally ...