Hummingbirds bring vibrant life to any garden, but they also attract a range of predators and pests that can threaten their ...

Think your loo is the dirtiest thing at home? Tests reveal your everyday kitchen sponge may crawl with far more bacteria – ...

Researchers at Griffith University have discovered a tentative but plausible link between nose picking and an increased risk ...

Keep your insect spray handy — mosquitoes are getting hungrier for human blood. What's happening? Mosquito bites are an itchy nuisance in most cases but can also pose serious he ...

It’s not always easy to distinguish norovirus from food poisoning. The two share many of the same symptoms, and when cases of the winter vomiting bug are unusually high – currently more than 45% above ...

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

Stanford Medicine researchers claim they've created a "universal" that can protect against a viruses ranging from COVID to ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

Bacteria extracted from 5,000-year-old ice in the Scărișoara Ice Cave in Romania could help us fight superbugs, new research ...