A recent study from UC Santa Barbara, the University of Réunion, and Duke University has identified the black rat as a likely source of hantavirus transmission in rural Madagascar. These areas, once forested, have been increasingly cleared for agriculture and settlements. The findings were publishe...
Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has pr...
Rice University has announced a plan to move a statue of founder and former slave owner William Marsh Rice from the center of a heavily-used courtyard to a spot…