STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Parking problems are nothing new for Staten Islanders, but the city’s crackdown on illegal parking near one of the borough’s cultural institutions has some concerned about the ...

Plague, which is caused by infection with Yersinia pestis, has shaped human history through three major pandemics. The bacterium is a descendant of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and has diversified into ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and spread through the ages. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...