Spirtualists often tried to conjure the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. Harry Houdini set out to expose them. And Brad Ricca wrote about it all.

After H5N1 bird flu was detected in elephant seals gathered at Año Nuevo State Park, other marine mammals have also succumbed, including a sea otter and sea lion. So far, only animals in San Mateo ...

If you were a youngster in Boerne around 1918, you might have been chanting this little rhyme: “I had a little bird, its name was Enza. I opened the window, and in-flu-enza.” 1918 was a brutal year ...

A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from replicating inside an infected host or prevent the virus from transmitting to ...

Inoculation effectively eliminated smallpox as a threat to American troops, ending outbreaks that had removed large numbers of soldiers from service.

Ever wondered how World War I soldiers stayed clean (or if they could at all) amid the mud, lice, and rats of the trenches?