Many view the refrigerator as the all-preserving kitchen miracle of the century, but storing food improperly can lead to ...

Fearless bacteria have colonized extreme environments, adapted to vast temperatures and pH fluctuations, and acclimated to ...

Contrary to the '5-second rule,' which suggests that picking up food dropped on the floor within 5 seconds poses little hygiene risk, experimental results have shown that bacteria can proliferate even ...

A message encoded as artificial DNA can be stored within the genomes of multiplying bacteria and then accurately retrieved, US scientists have shown. Their concern that all current ways of storing ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases. It does this by ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) flags a surge in “nightmare bacteria.” The label, ...