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In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

While bottled water seems like a healthier alternative, one office space fixture is actually holding lots of teeny, tiny ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

Hippie college town Berkeley is sounding the alarm over a frightening outbreak of leptospirosis near a homeless encampment in ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

The bacteria can survive in contaminated water or soil for weeks and even months, and the risk of an outbreak increases after ...