A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology found that certain places on the body are “hot spots” for germs and unhealthy bacteria. Scientists at George Washington University in ...

Get out the hand sanitizer! You'll want to carry extra when you learn about this gross part of an airplane—and we use it ...

It may be best to leave that seatback tray table in its upright and locked position, especially during the Thanksgiving travel rush. Disease-causing bacteria on airplane surfaces can linger for days, ...

At Empa, an interdisciplinary research institute for materials science and technology within the ETH Domain, researchers are ...

Dear Science: Now and then health awareness articles use the attention-grabbing statistic "XYZ has more germs on it than a toilet seat!" Is this actually a useful comparison? Is the sheer number of ...

Dirty towels can carry a huge variety of microbes, and they’ve even been linked to spreading infectious disease. You can’t ...

Most people clean their homes with the best intentions, but some of the most common habits actually make things worse rather than better. The tools you trust, the cloths you reuse, and the wipes you ...

Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now ...

We tested several common methods for killing germs on the kitchen sponge: A bleach soak, microwaving it, running it through the dishwasher and a vinegar soak.

Your smartphone, as it turns out, is covered with 10 times as many bacteria as a toilet seat, according to a 2012 study from ...