Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

"It's like a new world that we didn't know existed before," one Eastern Connecticut State University researcher said.

A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on a brackish beach in Oregon. The species was named Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis in honor of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2025, scientists identified 26 previously unknown bacterial species living inside NASA’s cleanrooms. These are rooms where ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

New study demonstrates that diverse communities of resident bacteria can protect the human gut from disease-causing microorganisms. However, this protective effect is lost when only single species of ...

Each year, most species of bacteria in a Wisconsin lake rapidly evolved, apparently in response to dramatically changing seasons, and then evolved back. Like Bill Murray in the movie "Groundhog Day," ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...

The new study represents the first known bacteriological assessment of this scale in sharks and rays in Brazil, and its findings highlight the urgent need for more research in this area. Sharks and ...

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

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