Children’s toys are designed to be tough and ... have been dragged through mud and leaves at the park, to dogeared books and ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, the Rhone Poulenc Science Book Prize, along with three other international literary prizes, Guns, Germs and Steel has been translated into 25 languages ...

Homes have become exceptionally clean these days, thanks to modern cleaning, which may leave children bereft of exposure to bacteria and other germs that ... to a new book titled Inside OUT ...

Many germs are harmless; however, some can cause illnesses. Although most children’s immune systems provide adequate protection against infection, it is important to instruct children how to ...

And other soft, squishy surfaces. The New York University pathologist and self-described microbe hunter wrote a book called the The Secret Life of Germs. He knows where they are lurking.

And if all germs are life, then life itself is a germ. “Usually,” Mr. Levenson writes, “there is no single moment when everything changes.” Yet this one paper would put us on a path toward ...