Copper has emerged as an ally in the battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Copper sulfate liquids, for example, have ...

A desert region in northern Mexico sparked the imagination of Prof. Joel Stavans, a physicist who studies the physics of ...

A study from the UK tested swabs from cell phone screens and car keys in petri dishes, and found 241 colonies grew on the key samples, versus 66 for phones.

Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.

The Corynebacterium cells in dental plaque are like a big, bushy tree in the forest; they create a spatial structure that provides the habitat for many other species of bacteria around them." ...

Three yeasts and three bacterial species that live at the flower-insect interface were used in the experiments and the development of bumblebee colonies was monitored over a period of 10 weeks. The ...

The researchers coated the bacteria with a mineral that could act as a semiconductor, and applied the mixture to a glass surface. With the coated glass acting as an anode at one end of their cell, ...