New CU Boulder research shows that bacteria harness physical laws to operate at the edge of chaos and use calcium to independently diversify and find a place to settle down Let’s talk about the ...

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they were a multicellular organism. The organisms in the study are the only ...

Fig. 2: Scheme of MISO bacteria on an iron(III) oxide mineral particle. Fig 3: Example of a habitat of MISO bacteria - Marine sediment (foto of a sample from an Arctic fjord in Svalbard) ...

Preparing food and washing clothes at 140 degrees Fahrenheit or above can kill most germs. Here's what you need to know.

There are bacteria that researchers are very familiar with; some of them are common environmental microbes, and range from harmless to strains that can easily cause infection in animals or people, ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Nature abounds with examples of bacteria that can thrive in extreme situations---surviving on toxic chemicals, for instance. In a paper published online in the Journal of the ...