A newly discovered bacterium is changing the way scientists understand bacterial size and complexity. Published in thejournal Science, the study reveals a bacterium that grows up to nearly one ...

Researchers have found that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are fatter and shorter than their antibiotic-sensitive parental strains, and that these morphological changes correlate with changes in the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We all know that eukaryotes are bigger than ...