There's increasing concern about PFAS, the substances commonly called forever chemicals found throughout the environment. Now volunteers in Minnesota are collecting pine needles throughout the state ...

Scientists in the Arctic are catching the exhaled breaths of whales to better understand their health. How? Drones. Whales breathe through their blowholes, which are the equivalent of nostrils on ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

TB is one of the world's deadliest diseases, with up to 3,500 people dying from it per day, according to NPR. But in regions ...

On a bright, brisk December day, two people stood in front of Boston’s Old South Church, asking passersby to shove cotton ...

Mumbai: For weeks, a shortage of cartridges for rapid tuberculosis tests has hampered the city's ability to diagnose ...

Current TB tests rely on sputum, mucus collected from the lungs and lower respiratory system. While rich in TB bacteria required for testing, collecting sputum is difficult, making it inefficient for ...

Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, a potential breakthrough that could allow easier, community-based ...

- Using both respiratory samples and stool for low-complexity automated testing (LC-aNAATs) increased the number of pulmonary tuberculosis cases detected in children (with and without HIV). - Adding ...

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a ...