Category: 1. Edi-Choice

Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing global health threat. Here’s what you need to know.

Free-living amoebas are single-celled organisms that don’t need…

PENSACOLA, Fla. — One case of measles has been confirmed in the Pensacola area.

Pensacola Pediatrics says they were recently notified of this case.

“Measles is highly contagious, and unvaccinated individuals are at increased risk if exposed,”…

Coffee first entered human lives and veins over 600 years ago.

Now we consume an average of almost two kilos per person each year – sometimes with very specific preferences about blends and preparation methods. How much you drink is…

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones has revealed the key role microbes play in intestinal stem cell function.

After receiving a fecal microbiota transplant from younger mice, one aspect of age-related decline in…

In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky Way. These stars, as it turned out, were unbound objects that had been kicked out of the Milky Way and…

A bleak photograph shows a mother polar bear and her three cubs resting on bare ground and moss, their coats brown with mud.

The image is on the shortlist for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award — a…

If humanity truly hopes to colonize the solar system, it must overcome a challenge arguably greater than any technological hurdle: human reproduction beyond Earth. The idea may sound like science fiction, but a group of experts…

Stunning images showing a deer carrying a rival’s rotting head and a lynx playing with its food are among the shortlisted entries for an annual wildlife photography competition’s people’s choice award.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year…