Kidney stones have plagued humans since antiquity, yet despite our long history with them, we've apparently overlooked a key ...

Scientists have found a way to use common bacteria as tiny, green chemical factories to replace a process that currently ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have found two gut bacteria working together that contribute to chronic constipation ...

Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including ...

In a groundbreaking scientific development, a strain of bacteria that can produce pure gold has been discovered. This finding opens up new and exciting possibilities for gold extraction techniques ...

Infinite vastness: Gases are constantly exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere. The study presented here shows how tiny marine organisms contribute significantly to the release of the ...

Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial ...

Modern beer production is a US$117 billion business in the United States, with brewers producing over 170 million barrels of beer per year. The brewing process is time- and energy-intensive, and each ...