In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of ...

WINCHESTER - Last year, the state closed Shannon Beach in Winchester (located at the Upper Mystic Lake) due to what the Department of Public Health calls “bacterial exceedance.” This means ...

At more than 470 times the atmospheric concentration of CO₂, a humble soil bacterium does something extraordinary: it turns ...

Nearly 20 beaches across Massachusetts are closed on Tuesday as temperatures are expected to soar. There are 17 total closures, according to the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH). One of those ...

Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms interact with their environments.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...