The germiest things in your home that you use every day Your bathroom toilet isn’t the germiest place in your home. The kitchen actually contained the ...

A 5,000-year-old microbe from a Romanian ice cave resists modern antibiotics while also showing promise for new treatments.

Antibiotics once transformed medicine, turning deadly infections into manageable conditions. But decades of overuse and ...

A global atlas mapping two key gut bacteria in infants around the world has uncovered a treasure trove of bacterial strains ...

Studying ancient microbes like this one is risky research, but it can also reveal novel biological mechanisms that inspire ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In today’s Health Headlines, we’re talking about pink noise, the importance of muscle strength, and ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

Bacteria lurk everywhere. However, it’s only after researchers retrieve them from the most remote corners of the Earth that we can learn more about the risks and potentials they pose. When resea ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key oxygen-processing enzyme back hundreds of millions of years before the Great ...

The massive sewage spill has sparked fears among residents in Cabin John, Maryland, about the lasting impacts on the Potomac ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...