The weather’s heating up again, and things are looking hot, with big St. Patrick’s Day celebrations coming right up. Keggs & Eggs has moved to Union Station, where the party starts early on Friday ...

A giant DNA virus pulled from a Japanese freshwater pond is forcing scientists to rethink how complex cells first acquired their defining feature: the nucleus. Named ushikuvirus, the newly ...

There's something profoundly captivating about the phrase "lost to time." Throughout history, countless treasures, cities, ...

Microbial bioelectronic sensors use living bacteria that can create an electrical signal in response to the presence of a ...

Scientists at Arizona State University have uncovered surprising new ways bacteria move, even without their usual whip-like propellers called flagella. In one study, E. coli and salmonella were found ...

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.

Imaging-based single-cell physiological profiling holds great potential for uncovering fundamental bacterial cold shock response (CSR) mechanisms, but its application is impeded by severe focus drift ...

The gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract—drives a process vital for protecting the colon against tissue injury, according to the findings ...

Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.

You described the microbiome as more than just bacteria. What are the other components of this "theatre of activity," and why is their inclusion sometimes considered controversial? Harris: Yeah. So it ...

Extension’s indoor vertical farming and hydroponic crops production course can expand food production in arid climates ...