A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in ...

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the host and its resident. It may seem unusual, but complex cells are thought ...

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

Johns Hopkins researchers use oyster and turkey tail mushrooms to break down psychoactive drugs commonly found in wastewater treatment byproducts ...

An international research team led by Konrad Meister from Boise State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has identified a new class ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify 25 new protein compounds that can kill bacteria and fungi, including two that showed particular potency against skin and lung infections in ...

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Modern society seems to have gone germophobic—say the word "bacteria" and most people will immediately conjure images of nasty illnesses and dangerous infections. But bacteria, fungi and other ...

Credit: Boris Vinatzer Fungi may hold a little-known key to ice formation in clouds. Can fungi affect the weather? It may sound unlikely, but new research suggests they just might. An international ...

You might think water automatically turns to ice the moment the temperature drops below freezing. It’s not that you’ve been lied to by your high-school teacher. It’s more like you’ve been told only ...