Animals’ magnetic ‘sixth’ sense may come from bacteria, new paper suggests A University of Central Florida researcher is co-author of a new paper that may help answer why some animals have a magnetic ‘sixth’ sense, […]
Painting with bacteria could revolutionise wastewater treatment Improvements to a new type of water-based paint containing bacteria could pave the way for advancements in waste management and the production of biomass or biofuel gasses, a […]
Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The bacteria finding suitable conditions for its survival could then […]
Scientists Just Discovered Another Trick Bacteria Use to Avoid The Immune System For their own self-preservation, infectious bacteria often try their best to stay out of the way of the immune system in our bodies […]
Shock to bacteria activates nature’s electrical grid The ocean floor and the ground beneath our feet are riddled with tiny nanowires—1/100,000th the width of a human hair—created by billions of bacteria that can generate electric […]
As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province yesterday, with […]