Antibiotics

Nova Scotia is declaring a provincial outbreak of syphilis after seeing a jump in the number of cases last year. Public health officials said today there were 82 cases recorded in 2019, compared with 50 in 2018 and 38 in 2017. Twenty per cent of the cases l…

The clearest indicator of the climate crisis is heat, and Earth is frickin hot. In fact, we just wrapped up the hottest decade in recorded human history. The 2010s saw eight of the planets 10 hottest years on record. And last year was a particularly hot one. …

All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and night. The details differ between plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals, but the consistent feature is a biological clock that allows the o…

Tolerance to antibiotics affects response