This includes a sore throat, a runny nose, fever, and the buildup of mucus in the nose and throat. Many of us may have witnessed our elders (or even tried ourselves) throwing out or spitting the ...

This unusual bacteria lives in our large intestine and survives off of mucin—the layer of mucus that covers the large intestine's surface. Mucin provides a small but important separation between ...

Symptoms of TB in the lungs or respiratory tract include a cough lasting at least three weeks, chest pain and coughing up blood or phlegm. Other general symptoms include weakness or fatigue ...

"The bricks are Danish and the same goes for the timbers, which are additionally charred and sooty from a fire. This fits perfectly with the historical accounts stating that one of the ships ...

The Vatican continues its centuries-old tradition of signaling the election of a new pope with smoke from the Sistine Chapel's chimney. Modern science has stepped in to ensure the clarity of the ...

He better be. Credit... Supported by By Lizzy Goodman Reporting from Los Angeles On a sooty, dank spring afternoon in March, the musician Cameron Winter sat hunched over a portable keyboard inside ...

Currently, the main diagnostic strategy for tuberculosis focuses on sputum samples, which are obtained by deep coughing and expectoration of secretions produced in the lungs. So far, the WHO has ...

A clue emerged in 2023 in Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire, where a team of researchers has been monitoring a group of sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) for many years. In late January that ...

A tawny owl is set to be checked by an eye vet after being found trapped and covered in soot in a wood burner flue. The bird had strayed down the chimney at a holiday home on Dorset's Jurassic ...

A dry cough doesn't produce mucus or phlegm, unlike a wet (productive) cough. A tickling or scratchy sensation in the throat prompts a cough. A natural reflex, it helps protect your airways and ...