The United Kingdom and the United States share many similarities but are distinctly different in the way each nation structures and enforces their respective health and safety legislation, monitoring ...

Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired while at a health care facility and are not present at the time of admission. Nosocomial infections are many times also called hospital acquired ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the surrounding environment than by testing individual ...

A researcher in protective gear collects samples from a Topanga home burned in the Palisades fire. (Nicholas Spada, UC Davis) While the fires that devastated Los Angeles in January are now contained, ...

From the sprawling vineyards of the Bay Area to the strawberry fields of the Central Coast and orchards of the Central Valley, California remains an agricultural juggernaut, producing more fruits, ...

Some researchers are racing against time to uncover the unknown diversity in nature, while also developing ways to save it. Fungi are among the most diverse and ecologically important kingdoms in life ...

A new method that uses a simple air sample and the power of a dog’s nose makes it easy to check shipping containers for trafficked wildlife.

Sampling is a technique in which samples are drawn at random (without any favor or bias). For this, suitable measures or procedures may be laid down and adopted according to the nature and ...

An Eagan neighborhood is starting to get results from soil sample tests done after elevated levels of lead were detected in the air near the Gopher Resource recycling facility. The free soil screening ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency arrived in Alabama this week and took charge of battling a landfill fire north of Birmingham after finding evidence of two chemicals that are known to cause ...