Lakes, natural and man-made, provide water, food and habitats for wildlife, and also support local economies. Around the ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

If people had been aware of the existence of bacteria and their role in causing the Black Death in the 14th century, as well ...

By employing a novel technique to examine how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have found that gut bacteria can ...

Scientists have uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide spectrum of antibiotics along ...

Cleaning wireless earbuds with detachable silicone tips, like the AirPods Pro or JBL Reflect Flow Pro, is simpler due to the ...

In a nutshell A year-long study of hospital sink drains found 67 different bacterial species living there, many resistant to ...

We hope to be cured when we stay in hospital. But too often, we acquire new infections there. Such "health-care-associated ...

Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

A study found that hospital sink drains harbor dangerous bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant strains. Despite thorough ...

A groundbreaking study explores how bacterial transfer during intercourse — the "sexome" — could help confirm sexual contact ...