Among the most common potentially harmful airborne bacteria propelled from the toilet bowls of indoor bathrooms are E. coli ...

The emerging technology offers an alternative to conventional UVC light, which is used to sanitize surfaces but can harm the ...

Fungi adapt to heat, spread through spores, and may cause more fungal infections in a warmer, crowded, connected world.

These tiny droplets of respiratory fluid, or aerosols, carry viruses and bacteria and can float for ... may have been playing a much bigger role in airborne disease transmission all along: carbon ...

We've long known that environmental factors - from humidity and temperature to trace chemical vapours - can influence how pathogens, such as viruses ...

How these bacteria survive their airborne journey is key to their persistence, but very little is known about how they protect themselves as they waft from one host to the next. Now MIT ...

Airborne MPs have been measured at concentrations ... plastic particles in plant-eating animals, insects, micro-organisms and humans. More information: Ye Li et al, Leaf absorption contributes ...