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 ...

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 ...

David Cook via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 In the Ivory Coast in West Africa, a baby sooty mangabey monkey fell ill. It developed red, pus-filled blisters all over its forehead, chest and legs.

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 ...

The adults never move and do not obviously look like insects, so many gardeners don’t realize their trees are infested until they see magnolia leaves turn black from a sooty mold that grows on ...

Adjacent land areas provide the foraging habitat for several of the world’s largest remaining colonies of seabird species including Sooty Terns and Lesser Frigatebirds. While they are not ...

The black parts of the plant could be sooty mould that grows on the sugar-rich secretion from whiteflies. These pests can be difficult to control and you need to be diligent in applying pesticides ...

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 the ...

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 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 ...

But coal is a disaster for the climate - releasing more planet-heating carbon dioxide than oil and gas, and plenty of sooty air pollution. Hence it's been in decline in richer, Western countries ...