The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. The team closely examined the molecular structure of Bas63, a ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there's a frenzy of viruses ...

We share the world with vast numbers of microbes, including archaea, bacteria, and viruses. These microbes have numerous survival strategies. Some bacteria, for example, are able to enter dormant ...

It's estimated that 90 percent of the biomass in the oceans is made up of marine microorganisms, a group that includes protists, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses. Microbes lives in some of the ...

The human gut is home to diverse microbes and has one of the highest density of microbes on Earth. The trillions of microbes that live within us are incredibly important for human health. Yet, we know ...

What is soap actually doing when you shower? Style Theory brings in Stephanie to answer that question with genuine chemistry, covering the dual function that most hygiene education ignores: soap ...

A shower head is a perforated nozzle that distributes water over solid angle a focal point of use, generally overhead the bather. Image by DO'Neil (CC BY-SA 3.0) A shower head is a perforated nozzle ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t belong in the lungs.

In an early animal test, a new nasal-spray vaccine has shown promise against a variety of germs and a common allergen, ...