A Missouri resident is in intensive care after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba, likely while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials confirmed Wednesday. The case of ...

There’s a sinister health threat we’re not taking seriously enough, a new paper argues – and it’s not a virus, bacterium, nor even a fungus. It’s the amoebae, free-living organisms that can survive ...

In a boiling corner of northern California, a single-celled creature is quietly rewriting the rules for how hot complex life can get. The so-called “fire amoeba” does not just tolerate temperatures ...