Instead, it does something far stranger. It’s very conductive. We’re not talking in a metaphorical sense. This bacterium quite literally acts like a living wire. Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis is ...

Project title: “Evolution of Polar Cell Wall Growth Across Bacterial Clades” What’s the idea?

Scientists have discovered yet another never-before-seen strand of bacteria growing on a space station. This time it was ...

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

Chinese researchers have swabbed the Chinese Tiangong Space Station and found a novel strain of bacterium called 'Niallia ...