Hypochlorous acid is safe enough to spray in your eyes yet more effective than bleach. Why isn’t it everywhere?

One way microplastics fuel antibiotic resistance is by acting as “hotspots” for bacteria to interact and exchange genes.

Don’t drink the coffee on board. The water tanks on airplanes are rarely, if ever cleaned, and they use this water to make ...

“You can get water kefir and dairy kefir,” Dr Rossi explains. “Dairy kefir is made with milk and contains lactose, unlike water kefir which is made with sugary water. Generally speaking, homemade ...

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

There’s no way to completely avoid microplastics. The good news is that there are steps you can take to reduce your ...

In the fight against antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) superbugs, an important weapon may just be hiding in some polluted stream, ...

In 2017, microbiologist Dr. Markus Egert from the University of Furtwangen in Germany published data on the bacterial ...

A biomolecular engineering course has recently been redesigned to give students experience with the entire process of DNA ...

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules externally, allowing other community members to share and ...

In miniature test tubes in biologist Ryan Baugh's lab at Duke, thousands of tiny wriggling worms—each one a fraction the size ...