The researchers note that we’ve known bacteria could breathe without oxygen for some time now. But this is the first time we’ve discovered exactly how they do it, which makes this a crazy ...

If you want to visit the moons of Jupiter or Saturn someday, you might end up wearing a 3-D-printed spacesuit filled with bacteria. An ordinary spacesuit wouldn’t be enough to survive the ...

Impact Link Our largest and most exposed organ — our skin — is covered in and composed of not just human skin cells but also about a trillion bacteria (and even more viruses) along with ...

If this isn’t working soon, we can always move on,’” she said. “His was a crazy idea, because there’s never, ever been evidence of a virus listening in on bacterial host information to decide whether ...

Certain gut bacteria may increase the risk that a person ... About 22% of the mice became compulsive eaters. “They became crazy for the food,” Martin-Garcia said. “They kept banging ...

At least three people have died after contracting infections from a rare flesh-eating bacteria that can be caused by eating raw seafood such as oysters or swimming in warm saltwater, New York and ...