Despite how prevalent and uncomfortable they can be, yeast infections are usually manageable with the right care.

Tiny robots—around 50 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair—open up fascinating possibilities: they enable the ...

Jérémie Palacci's research group is venturing into metallurgy—albeit with a twist. Instead of traditional tools, the ...

Traditionally, identifying a bacterium requires peering through a microscope. Researchers from TU Delft want to trade your ...

A new Lyme disease vaccine made by Pfizer and Valneva could lower infection rates of the tick-borne illness, but federal ...

Scientists have discovered that a common fungus and a common bacterium can combine to cause much worse injuries to living ...

Your kitchen sponge may be dirtier than you think. Scientific studies reveal sponges are a breeding ground for bacteria, ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial ...

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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 ...

A new study pinpoints two species of bacteria that work together to dry out the lining of the gut and cause constipation It is as unfortunate an ailment as it is ubiquitous: at some point in our life, ...

A mysterious group of bacteria seems to thrive in the gut microbiomes of people without illness, hinting that they may be crucial to good health. Yet about two-thirds of these species are part of the ...