Dust mites live in our sheets, feeding on dead skin that is shed from our bodies. Our skin supports a wide variety of life, including fungi, tiny mites in our eyelash follicles, and several types of ...

A deep-sea bacteria could be the answer to cleaning up decades-old oil spills in weeks After a disastrous deep-sea oil spill, a bacteria was discovered at great ocean depths, feasting on the oil.

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology ...

A research team at Shandong First Medical University in China has now developed a solution that actively hunts down and destroys resistant bacteria. They created microscopic particles that combine the ...

However, because of the difficulty in identifying their function due to their microscopic size ... where a C-shaped bacteria known as CL500-11 appears at especially high concentrations in its ...

Students, employees and contractors at Palomar High School in Chula Vista were notified Friday of a possible tuberculosis ...

Which explores microscopic lifeforms in New York City ... Each strand is an oscillating colony of bacteria. These diatoms are in another NYC pond. They're cells of algae inside tiny glass houses ...