Recent cases of brain-eating amoeba in India highlight the deadly nature of this pathogen, which thrives in warm freshwater and causes fatal brain infections. Listen to Story The brain-eating amoeba ...

Under the microscope, one water-filled petri dish was teeming with round, reddish, immobile blobs — what vampyrellids look like after feeding. But nearby algae lacked telltale feeding holes.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first — in his DEFCON 32 presentation, [Dr. Mixæl Laufer] shared quite a bit of information on how individuals can make and distribute various controlled ...

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are present globally in both natural and engineered water systems. Several FLA can play a direct role in human diseases such as Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba, and ...

A major international chess tournament in northern Norway was rocked by the sudden deaths of two players Kurt Meier, 67, from Switzerland suffered a heart attack during his final match and later ...