Plastic pollution does more than litter landscapes and oceans. According to a new perspective article published in ...

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick. Bacteria and viruses ...

We all know that freezing foods can make them safer to consume in the long run, but you might have always wondered why.

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

We still don't know a lot about how bacteria and viruses relate to one another in man-made or built environments such as buildings and modes of transportation, but scientists have recently ...

The CDC will soon recommend that some people take a "morning-after" antibiotic to lower their risk of STIs. But someday, it's possible that bacteria-killing viruses could do this without driving ...

Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle noticed some "clear spots" in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly that turned out to be viruses preying on the ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are ...

Urban wild bees carry microbial signatures in their guts that reveal stresses of city living, from limited food to pollution ...

That stickiness matters. When bacteria clump together, they sink faster, carrying carbon away from the surface ocean and into ...

Viruses may get a bad rap, but some of them can be helpful to fight off bacterial infections. ETH Zurich scientists have demonstrated a new way to use them to diagnose which bacteria is causing a UTI, ...