An artificial intelligence-powered mobile application could help reduce one of commercial pollination’s biggest hidden risk.

PLAQUE ON TEETH, slime on stones, gunge around taps and showers. Biofilms—slimy, durable colonies of bacteria—are everywhere. Much of the research into them focuses on the hard-to-treat infections ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Krishna Macha, Sushmita Sudarshan, Carina Gao, Oksana Sirenko, and Sheela Muley. Bacterial and yeast strains are central to microbiology, ...

Bacteria aren’t just mindless microbes. Research by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has revealed that single bacterial cells can carry a “memory” of their past environments—passing it ...

Heat-resilient biofertilizers could help crops cope with rising temperatures but engineering them has been slow and uncertain ...