Studies confirm that washing produce is an effective way to reduce harmful microbes that can cause illness. For example, data ...

Explorers on a submarine at a depth of 2,461 feet had quite a shock when a group of massive sixgill sharks decided the sub was a threat to their feast. The Blue Planet II Team from the BBC nature show ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

Fungi may not seem like an obvious power source, but researchers have proven they can offer a sustainable and renewable way ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

UMass Amherst researchers have discovered a new bacteria in Maine rabbit ticks linked to an infection that can be deadly for ...

Give your gut some natural love with these probiotic-rich foods. Boost your gut health and indulge in some tasty dishes.

In this look at 10 really risky foods right now, CR shows you how to protect yourself from food poisoning from these foods ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Researchers are almost ready to start testing a methane-eating bacteria that could help cut emissions from landfills.

Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to pump out antibiotics indiscriminately? Researchers show this is an ...

Later this year, researchers in the US will deploy a bioreactor filled with a specially bred strain of methane-eating bacteria at a landfill site in Washington. They hope the field test will prove ...