Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...
Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming ...
Antibiotic factories release resistance genes at levels 100x higher than city sewage. Pharmaceutical pollution is fueling ...
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ are increasingly showing up in the environment, our food and drinking water, and throughout our bodies. But we might have a new weapon: scientists have identified a bacterium ...
Environmental antimicrobial resistance is turning rivers, soils, and even the air into hidden highways for "superbugs," ...
The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...
Scientists have been working to analyze all of the various factors that contribute to climate change, and microbes are one influence whose effect is largely still a mystery. Researchers have now found ...
Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...
Europe produced 58.8 million tonnes of plastics in 2022. — © AFP JOSH EDELSON Europe produced 58.8 million tonnes of plastics in 2022. — © AFP JOSH EDELSON ...
Bacteria are good at evolving to evade efforts to destroy it. But building defenses like antibiotic resistance drains limited ...