Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...

Sometimes, transporting electrons from one cell to another is a team effort. In electroactive bacteria, that team is a group of proteins that shepherds electrons forward, passing them along like a ...

People have long given up on the search for the Fountain of Youth, a mythical spring that could reverse aging. But for some scientists, the hunt has not ended—it's just moved to a different place.

In the era of increasing bacterial antibiotic resistance, finding new ways of combating pathogens is especially important. An attractive possibility is targeting bacterial survival strategies that ...

Warmer days, contaminated water and unsafe food storage practices combine to drive a rise in stomach infections, say doctors ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.