A comprehensive study that took over 20 years to develop has explained the tradeoff that the cholera bacteria faces when ...

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses ...

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Life moves in mysterious ways—and perhaps especially so for organisms that undergo dramatic shifts in levels of ...

At Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, sand has been dredged commercially for decades. Large vessels remove sand from the ...

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous ...

Scientists have discovered a thriving ecosystem of microbes living in extreme conditions deep beneath the seabed of the Amundsen Sea, raising new questions ...

Your kitchen sponge, a breeding ground for millions of microbes, emits foul odors as bacteria thrive in its moist, food-laden ...

CHARLESTON — Fill a cup with water from Charleston Harbor and it will almost certainly be riddled with microplastics. That’s ...

At-home breath tests could reveal insights about gut health, though their ability to assess food intolerances is not yet ...

A new study shows that common mushrooms can remove harmful drug chemicals from biosolids and help protect soil and environment.

In A Nutshell The findings are from an animal study and cannot be directly applied to humans, but the biological pathways ...