Bacteria operate by a pretty simple set of biological commands: survive and reproduce. But a recent study is highlighting ...

Scientists have discovered a gruesome microbial survival strategy: when food is scarce, some bacteria kill and consume their ...

When food runs low, some bacteria kill and eat their neighbors. Study shows a survival strategy that changes how we think ...

Bacteria typically live out their teeny-tiny lives in the microscopic realm, but now scientists have found a gargantuan one the size and shape of a human eyelash. The new find is "by far the ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round ...

That’s what pops to mind when I look at Sebastian Hess’ photos of a kind of plump, violent, single-celled creature he collected from a pond rich in sphagnum moss in southern Germany.

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

“This study really does contribute to a growing body of research that shows that these microscopic organisms and these microscopic plastics can compound and become a really macroscopic problem ...

A detailed examination of the sperm showed that each one is covered with many hundreds of spindle-shaped micro-organisms (Figs. 1 and 2) attached to the posterior third of its broad portion.

The latest breakthrough comes from research examining the relationship between oral bacteria and cognitive decline suggesting that the microscopic organisms in our mouths might influence brain ...

of neomycin sulphate. The resulting culture, which contained a number of other micro-organisms in addition to the coiled form, was inoculated into germ-free rats of the Swedish strain and the ...