Many people find comfort in the idea that houseflies only live for 24 hours. That way, when one finds its way into their home, they don’t panic about it taking up residence for long. However, is this ...

Effective long-term control often requires a professional pest management approach that addresses the root cause of the ...

Bacteria may offer an unexpected way to immobilize uranium in contaminated water. Uranium contamination is difficult to ...

But researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis), a bacterium commonly found in soil, employs a different survival strategy. The result, ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for that many generations ...

Summer temperatures can create ideal conditions for bacterial growth long before dinner. Here's what can happen to meat between the store and home.

A flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus is quietly expanding its reach along the U.S. coastline — and climate change is accelerating its spread. Scientists at the University of Florida are ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Shelbi Russell studies to better understand the relationship between this bacteria and its insect hosts, with implications for the control of human ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

Unlike most bacteria, Caulobacterales bacteria divide asymmetrically when they reproduce, which creates two cells that look different from each other (top part of the illustration). However, the ...