Turning cell phones into basic research tools can improve health care in the developing world.
Turning cell phones into basic research tools can improve health care in the developing world.
Researchers use DNA from ancient tooth tartar to chart changes in the bacterial communities that have lived in human mouths for 8,000 years.
As new infections surface and spread, science meets the challenges with ingenuity and adaptation.
Scientists discover why certain cockroaches avoid eating insecticide-containing sugary bait.
Researchers discover a microbe living at -15°C, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, giving hope to the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Chilly weather could impede the immune reactions that most effectively contain viruses like the common cold.
Viruses that attack bacteria may be an important component of our gut microbiota.
The Asian harlequin ladybird carries a biological weapon to wipe out competing species.
Three-dimensional imaging of living chrysalises shows how butterflies develop.
Telomeres and disease; Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes may fight malaria; bat tongue mops nectar; newly sequenced genomes