Juliette Powell, a former MuchMusic VJ and author, has died. The 54-year-old, who appeared on Canadian television in the '90s as a host of Electric Circus and French Kiss died on June 3 after a brief ...

What it is: A lifelong viral infection that weakens the immune system, if left untreated Prevention methods: Taking preventive medicines called PrEP, using condoms, and avoiding needle sharing ...

The only specific misconduct alleged in Defendant’s first indictment is his entry into Ms. Pless’s apartment (which allegedly violated the operation plan and led to Mr. Atchison’s death).

The Forgotten Preacher Who Predicted Black Holes a Century Ahead of Einstein In 1783, this obscure English rector predicted black holes using Newton’s classical mechanics ...

Andrew Stuttaford collects sources arguing that the depopulation that followed the Black Death of 1348 had a silver lining: In 1300 England’s population had been around six million. In 1350, two ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history, killing an estimated 30–50% of the populations of Europe, Western Asia and Africa as it moved through those regions.

The Black Death was caused by the same bacteria which caused Plague of Justinian, the first plague pandemic which had broken out in the mid-500s. The third plague pandemic began in China in 1855 ...

The Black Death’s Economic ‘Dividend’ Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death c. 1562, oil on panel.(Public domain/via Wikimedia) ...

APOL9 also does not harm bacteria once attached. Instead, the bacteria releases little sacs that are they taken up by the immune system; they contain bacterial molecules called OMVs that appear to ...

By Jay Kakade May 24, 2025 The parasite steals proteins from the surface of other cells and wears them to hide from immune system defences Katherine Ralston View 1 Images ...

David Lo Lo: The measles virus is particularly infectious. We describe the infectivity of a virus in terms of the number of people that can get infected from a single infectious patient, called R0 (“R ...