The question: Is it true that your shoes can spread germs to the floors in your home and make you sick? On any given day, you might trudge through a variety of stuff, including dirt and dog poop — and ...

Why do people get sick? Ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s highest-ranking public-health official, and he may chalk it up to their terrain. For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that ...

A new startup called Germ is bringing end-to-end encrypted messaging to the Bluesky social network, allowing its users to have a more secure option for chats than Bluesky’s existing DMs. After over ...

Bluesky is a great alternative to platforms like X, especially in 2025. The platform offers most everything you'd expect from a social media site, from serious discussions, to copious memes, to DMs, ...

Bolton on Russian sanctions threat: Trump laying the groundwork to say ‘I’m done with it’ Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of ...

Some health experts believe the controversial claims made by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be due to an obsolete medical theory. Known as miasma theory, this ...

From alleging that the polio vaccine kills more people than it saves to promoting cod liver oil as a remedy during a measles outbreak, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has, ...

The post Kate Nash Releases Protest Song “GERM” Condemning Transphobia: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Kate Nash has dropped her new song, “GERM,” a scathing criticism of growing anti-trans ...

In the United States, I am increasingly seeing people reject scientific consensus. Among the most dangerous forms of this rejection is the resurgence of germ denial: the belief that microbes are not a ...

In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...

Gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise ships hit a 12-year high in 2024, and 2025 has been even worse, with cruise lines seeing an entire year's worth of outbreaks in only the first quarter of the year.