Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

In most people, these bacteria coexist peacefully and contribute to a mutually beneficial relationship, with both human and ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and the National University Health System (NUHS), together with an international team ...

Somehow, 26 new species of bacteria have managed to survive in the harshest place on Earth -- a NASA cleanroom.

While bottled water seems like a healthier alternative, one office space fixture is actually holding lots of teeny, tiny ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy to see that this helps them stay warm in cold temperatures, but a team of ...