Bacteria living around hydrothermal vents can help shape the minerals that form on the ocean floor, new research from Greece reveals.
As multidrug antibiotic resistance emerges as a potent public health challenge, medical science has renewed attention on the ...
MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can perform the basic switching functions of transistors.
A group of researchers has published new findings in Science Policy Forum on potential risks from the development of mirror bacteria—synthetic organisms in which all molecules have reversed chirality ...
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Cities are excellent at bringing people together. It turns out, they’re pretty good at collecting viruses, too. Scientists ...
Warmer soils harbor a greater diversity of active microbes, according to a new study. The study represents a significant shift in our understanding of how microbial activity in the soil influences the ...
That ultraviolet rays kill small organisms like bacteria and algae is one of those things which was discovered in the laboratory as a fact of pure science and is now being adapted to practical ...