Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Industrial use of microorganisms plays a crucial role in food and beverage production, as well as in the creation of ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

Bacteria can rapidly evolve resistance to antibiotics by adapting special pumps to flush them out of their cells, according to new research. Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem of global ...

The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to live.

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...