A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...

CHICAGO, IL – We’ve all been there—a tasty snack slips from your plate and lands on the floor. It’s frustrating, especially in the middle of a good meal. And in that moment of hesitation, many people ...

Antibiotic resistance is turning routine infections into life threatening events, and the traditional pipeline for new drugs is not keeping up. In response, laboratories are handing a growing share of ...

Dr Ambarish Ghosh, professor at IISc Bangalore explains how targeted nanorobots work against cancer, as well as the ...

Incomplete water disinfection may unintentionally accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic ...

What’s your pop culture gift to the world? While I can’t force everyone to watch all of The Rehearsal‘s incredible second ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

A Pillsbury brand Pizza Pop may not seem like an obvious candidate for E. coli – given the freezing and heating that goes on ...

If you've been reaching for sugar-free sweets thinking they're the healthier choice, new research might make you think twice. A study from Washington University in St. Louis, published in Science ...

Long-term cattle manure application significantly influences soil phosphorus (P) cycling and associated microbial communities in agricultural systems. However, the mechanisms by which P-transforming ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...