A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Viewers can watch a litter of black-footed ferrets and their mother, 3-year-old Aristides, on a temporary live webcam.

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

We asked Caver and Livers, faculty and coaches at the Center for Creative Leadership, to write a fictional letter from a black manager to a white boss describing the miasma and what it’s like to ...

Summer has officially started. If you're looking for things to do in the Ozarks this month, here are some ideas.

These are pests of the cool, wet times of spring and early summer. They hang out in moist, mulched beds and they come out to ...

Butterflies are fragile and vulnerable to predation by all kinds of critters, from birds and reptiles to spiders and other ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Aphids, which are probably the most common insect in gardens, are small, usually light green — though there are black, gray ...

A large outbreak of the eastern spruce budworm is defoliating trees and stressing or killing them, which can then help fuel ...