Scientists Create Cyborg Bacteria
Bacteria with artificial hydrogel skeletons could be used as tiny robots
Bacteria with artificial hydrogel skeletons could be used as tiny robots
Just two genes get tiny synthetic cells moving, offering clues to life’s evolution
A microbial discovery could help guide the search for life beyond Earth
These two researchers journey toward the center of Earth—via windows to the crust—to find bacteria that can breathe iron, arsenic and other metals that would kill us pretty quickly...
Wherever we dig and however deep we dig, we find microscopic living organisms. Could they eat the carbon we’re pumping into the air?
Scientists are on a mission to save parasites—not to kill them. Climate change is already doing an increasingly good job at the latter, and that could be a big problem for the world...
The pandemic fungus in the television program The Last of Us is real. But an expert says other fungi are much more threatening to humans
Urinary tract infections are increasingly becoming resistant to first-line antibiotics, and this may be a warning for our ability to treat other microbial infections
Mycologist Flora Patterson helped make the USDA fungus collection into the world’s largest. She also made a mean mushroom “catsup”
Do sleeping spores dream of electric sheep?
Clusters of bacteria and fungi seem to be capable of complex movement, setting tooth decay in motion
A new chip re-creates the human vagina’s unique microbiome
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii can change the behavior of infected wolves in ways that make them more likely to be pack leaders
A virologist explains what it takes for a virus to leap from an animal host into humans
Prevent your jack-o’-lantern from turning into moldy, maggoty mush before Halloween
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