While fog itself is not alive, researchers found that it can contain an ecosystem, including bacteria that eat pollutants.

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Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they’re the perfect breeding ground for these microbes. The team added a ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...

They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their appetites be harnessed to slow climate change? They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their ...

Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just like he had ...

A rare "flesh-eating bacteria" that lives in warm saltwater has led to at least four deaths this year, but some simple safety precautions can keep you safe while on vacation. The bacteria, Vibrio ...

Ah, summer. The sun is shining, the waves are crashing and folks are flocking to the beach like seagulls to a dropped french fry. But while you're out enjoying the Gulf, there's a microscopic menace ...

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It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles above our planet's surface. This bacterium, never before seen on Earth, was detected on China's ...