A new Caltech study indicates that drought increases the abundances of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in soils, which ...

A multinational research team, including Professor David W Graham from Durham University's Biosciences Department, have helped uncover a worrying new effect of climate change—the rise of antibiotic ...

Forget bedbugs and cockroaches — NYC is battling “superbugs” that can’t easily be quashed. Candida auris, for one, survives ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest science news. Last Monday the ...

CORRECTED September 30, 2025 // An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the two drugs which are effective against NDM-CRE. The article has been updated to state aztreonam-avibactam and ...

Newborns are delicate because they are still building the natural defence system that adults rely on every day. Even mild infections can become serious if left untreated. Over the past decade, doctors ...

Bacteria are rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday, with one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections now caused by ...

KITE & KEY MEDIA: Antibiotics have been one of humanity’s most powerful tools in the fight against infectious disease. But there’s a pretty big catch. Can a prescription drug be too effective? In the ...

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan. “Antimicrobial resistance is escalating, but the pipeline of new ...