Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life can survive.

You described the microbiome as more than just bacteria. What are the other components of this "theatre of activity," and why is their inclusion sometimes considered controversial? Harris: Yeah. So it ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

Scientists at Arizona State University have uncovered surprising new ways bacteria move, even without their usual whip-like propellers called flagella. In one study, E. coli and salmonella were found ...

Antibiotic resistance is usually treated as a simple yes-or-no problem. A bacterium either survives a drug or it doesn’t. But new research suggests the story may be more complicated. Scientists have ...

Doctors must treat sepsis quickly to prevent organ failure. But demographic change and drug-resistant infections are making the condition harder to manage.

The exhibition mīgisak mīgoh/Beads in the Blood is a retrospective of the celebrated Plains Cree art maker’s four-decade ...

A research team at TU Wien and the startup Cerabyte has created the smallest QR code ever recorded, measuring just 1.98 ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.

Researchers have identified bacterial biofilms within calcium oxalate kidney stones, the most common type, challenging the established view that these stones are sterile and noninfectious and raising ...

Jim Cramer, the host of Mad Money, said Monday that earnings season is what is really moving stocks right now. We knew the airlines would have to cancel a lot of flights thanks to the blizzard on ...