Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but vanishingly rare. That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated. As the ...

While their experiences do not tell us what an alien would eat, they do show us that leaving Earth changes the way we eat.

On a hot Saturday in San Antonio over 10 years ago, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after days of fever, headache, vomiting and sensitivity to light. The child's mother, who lived near ...

A Missouri resident is in intensive care after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba, likely while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials confirmed Wednesday. The case of ...

Scientists are warning that a microscopic predator is quietly exploiting the world’s warming and aging water systems, slipping past filters and disinfectants to reach human noses and, in rare cases, ...