Makeup brush bacteria grows faster than you think, and could be responsible for your breakouts. TikTok users are disgusted to see the number of bacteria that grows on makeup sponges and brushes. If ...
When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...
Antibiotics are medical marvels that have transformed once deadly bacterial infections into manageable conditions. But with a ...
An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.
Among the most feared are the so-called ESKAPE pathogens, a rogues’ gallery of microbes that “escape” many treatments and drive stubborn hospital-acquired infections. One of them, Acinetobacter ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century. In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and ...
Bacteria frozen for thousands of years could hold the key to developing new antibiotics, researchers have found.
Michigan State University’s renowned Long-Term Evolution Experiment – a remarkable 34-year biological drama in flasks, with bacteria competing for resources and fighting for dominance – is itself ...
Scuttling about in the Indian River Lagoon's murky depths, horseshoe crabs — regarded as "living fossils" that predate the dinosaurs — may provide a future biomedical function that helps keep NASA ...