In A Nutshell Living detectors: Researchers modified E. coli bacteria to light up when they sense acetic acid, the chemical ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...

A generally healthy 63-year-old man in the New England area went to the hospital with a fever, cough, and vision problems in ...

Tagatose is not an artificial sweetener, but is a breakdown product of glucose, and is very similar to the sugar galactose, ...

Everyone’s talking about Greenland” sounds like the title of the latest West End hit – if only. Yet Greenland does appear to ...

An outbreak of deadly bacteria at a Bay Area homeless encampment has sparked urgent calls for action in Los Angeles, with ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

To answer this, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and microbiologist Luke Tennent conducted the ‘bare-bottom experiment’, which found that unclothed farts could spread Staphylococcus epidermidis and Pseudomonas ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...