The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d ...

For years, public-health authorities downplayed the risk that pathogens could spread via droplets light enough to circulate ...

Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.

A history of aerobiology would normally be a book that would have little interest beyond the science community. But in ...

While covering Covid, science writer Carl Zimmer learned how little we know about air and how it affects disease transmission ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

The book shows what a vital role the science of airborne life has played in the fight against COVID, influenza and other diseases. Zimmer also introduces readers to figures little known to the ...