In the midst of political and economic chaos, Venezuelan researchers are struggling to save the scientific legacy of their country’s fast-melting ice.

Thanks to the compounds used to protect precious flowers, antifungal resistance is here—and it could be just as dangerous to humans as antibiotic resistance.

The world’s largest mollusks are experts at turning sunshine and algae into fuel.

One out of every seven babies born to U.S. mothers who were infected with Zika during pregnancy developed some kind of health problem, according to the first long-term look at those children.

New research shows more promise for using AIDS treatment drugs as a prevention tool, to help keep uninfected people from catching HIV during sex with a partner who has the virus.

Preserved mummy bacteria can tell us a lot about the evolution of pathogens and antibiotic resistance.

When scientists began researching how to preserve rotting historical relics in Antarctica, they discovered a new world of fungi critical to Antarctica’s polar ecosystem.

Why your microbiome is considered an ‘essential organ’

In a race against antibiotic resistance, a Norwegian research team sails into the Arctic darkness.

Think of the worst pill you’ve ever had to take — something big, bitter, and chalky with a terrible aftertaste. Would you rather have to swallow that pill, or a small helping of someone else’s feces?

It’s a scary world out there. But from the moment we are born, an entire battalion is armed and at the ready to offer us protection against the perils of the world around us — and it’s not even human.

For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to perfect the gene editing that made this possible.