Scientists at the University of Houston may have taken a big step toward solving one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems. They’ve engineered sheets of bacterial cellulose (essentially ...

It sounds wild, but some of these animals have evolved to live in places where the ground can get hotter than a frying pan.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Gut health is all the rage — but what actually is it, and why does it have so much bearing on our overall health?

When we think of anxiety, we often think of the brain or the central nervous system. Mental stress and emotional pressure are ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped ...

Bacteria come in a wide variety of shapes, which are important for their fitness in their respective ecological niches. However, despite intensive research, the factors that determine the shape of ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

Bacterial communities are of great importance to humans. But how does the complex structure that is crucial for the functioning of the species form? As a team of researchers led by Remy Colin from the ...

Now a new study presents an innovative approach to addressing the issue of antibiotic resistance — through the development of shape-shifting antibiotics.