Jack Gilbert was recently named one of Popular Science magazine’s “Brilliant 10” for his work as a microbial ecologist at Argonne National Laboratory, but when he’s talking to kindergartners at Owen ...

The September death of Michael Funk was unexpected, to say the least. One day, the Arizona resident was cleaning crab pots outside his bayside Ocean City condo. Four days later, he was dead. His fatal ...

Mono Lake bacteria: A Dec. 23 article in Section A about a bacteria from Mono Lake that may be able to survive on the toxic element arsenic quoted Harry Collins, who studies the sociology of ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Take a simmering broth of fast-swirling news on the blogosphere and Twitter, stir in some arsenic bacteria and add a pinch of "extraterrestrial." The media explosion that followed has ...

MADISON, Wis. -- If you're made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death. A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the building blocks necessary for making new plants ...

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Virus-built silver appears much more effective against bacteria than commercial silver. In A Nutshell Lab safety tests showed ...

Bacteria are microscopic, single-celled organisms that exist in their millions, in every environment, both inside and outside other organisms. Some bacteria are harmful, but most serve a useful ...

A new analysis of a group of bacteria called Streptomyces reveals the way some strains of the microbe developed advanced abilities to tear up cellulose, and points out more efficient ways we might ...