PLAQUE ON TEETH, slime on stones, gunge around taps and showers. Biofilms—slimy, durable colonies of bacteria—are everywhere. Much of the research into them focuses on the hard-to-treat infections ...

An artificial intelligence-powered mobile application could help reduce one of commercial pollination’s biggest hidden risk.

Scientists at the MPI-DS have investigated how this motion interacts with the growth of the entire colony, which can be observed in a wide variety of cellular aggregates. Such growth happens when ...

Bacteria aren't just mindless microbes. New research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that single bacterial cells can carry a "memory" of their past environments-passing it down through ...

A peer-reviewed study is raising alarms about the role our waste and wastewater systems play in spreading dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The data revealed that microplastics may be acting ...

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an ...