Bringing your phone with you everywhere means it's filthier than you think. Keep it free from bacteria and germs with these ...

On May 25, 1940, lethal doses of streptococci bacteria were used to infect eight mice. Four of these were then administered injections of penicillin, helping them to survive days to weeks, even as the ...

The animal kingdom has many creatures with strong odors for defense. The stinkbird or hoatzin smells like manure due to its unique digestion. The southern tamandua releases a foul odor like a skunk.

Many neglect handwashing after public outings, risking germ spread. Soap and water are vital, especially when coughing or ...

No, Conan O’Brien isn’t named after the famous Barbarian.But what about the notorious bacteria? A listener wrote in to the ...

Then a larger form, its edges fluid like a cartoon ghost, appears ... s engine”: those essential organisms that make all life on earth possible. These are microbes—life in its smallest form—and they ...

Extremophile microbes on the other hand have multiple sets of proteins, each customised for life in a specific environmental niche. They ‘activate’ each set depending on the conditions around ...

NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS: And furthermore, we found that there are clouds of microbes in clusters of people, a little bit like Pig-Pen in that old peanuts cartoon. People have these ... worked with them or ...

It probably happens when someone doesn’t wash their hands thoroughly after using the toilet and then they touch a surface. The bacteria sit on that surface and transfer from there on to to your ...

You've likely used a hand dryer in a public restroom at a theatre or shopping centre, but a new TikTok video might make you think twice before doing so in the future. User @the_lab_life1, whose ...

Researchers are now finding that some of these helpful neighbors aren’t even human cells — they’re bacteria. “What we’re showing is that there are regions of the tumor that are heavily colonized by ...

Previously, the common view was that competition ruled in interactions between microbes, says Jonathan Friedman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who co-led the research with Paul C.