Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...
Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming ...
Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...
Our hands are mirror images of each other. Unless you flip one hand around, they’ll never look the same. Scientists call this chirality, and the mirror-like property is fundamental to all life on ...
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 ...
Earth's bacteria are evolving to survive in space. Several strains sourced from the International Space Station (ISS) differed from the same strains on Earth, having qualities specifically adapted to ...
Modern society seems to have gone germophobic—say the word "bacteria" and most people will immediately conjure images of nasty illnesses and dangerous infections. But bacteria, fungi and other ...