The warm, damp environments of your showerhead and toothbrush are the perfect breeding ground for microbes, and a new study ...

"You step on a nail, slice your leg, you get an open wound and the bacteria gets in,” said an infectious disease expert.

Milton displaced people and wildlife like alligators. But "it's not a monster movie out there," and there are other reasons ...

"You step on a nail, slice your leg, you get an open wound and the bacteria gets in,” said an infectious disease expert.

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

Pathogenic viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive on plastic. The biohazard risks of this ‘plastisphere’ shouldn’t be overlooked in efforts to tackle the pollution crisis.

Your toothbrushes and showerhead are bustling with life, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiomes, showing that more than 600 different viruses are teeming around you ...

AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses and parasites no longer respond to medicines, making people sicker and increasing the spread of infections, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

But what you can't see in that pond is the evolutionary battle between the plants and microbes trying to invade them. Plants depend heavily on microbes around them. The community of bacteria ...

A sealed rock fracture almost 50 feet below ground has remained home to microbes for the last 2 billion years—the oldest life ever discovered in such conditions. The nearly 1-foot sample ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa ...