A study has found that certain fungi can trigger water to freeze, offering fresh insight into how microscopic life influences the atmosphere.
Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even coral skeletons.
He reassured the patient that a standard course of antibiotics would do the trick. But Gerry Wright was not a run-of-the-mill patient. At the time, he was director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute ...
Health officials in southern England are racing to contain an outbreak of bacterial meningitis that has killed two young people and sickened at least 27 total — a crisis that has alarmed medical ...
Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...
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A short-lived experiment in the wake of the Mount St. Helens eruption has produced effects still visible 43 years later. By ...
Fungi may be the key to weather manipulation, after researchers isolated a fungal protein that promotes ice formation.
Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, posing significant challenges to healthcare systems. Beyond the direct ...
When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...