The first evidence that bacteria can convert toxic uranium dissolved in water into a stable chemical compound.

Bacteria may offer an unexpected way to immobilize uranium in contaminated water. Uranium contamination is difficult to ...

Scientists have uncovered a possible new route by which “jumping genes” move between species. Credit: Shutterstock. A jumping ...

A U.S. Navy microbiologist found 14 new bacteria-eating viruses that could help fight drug-resistant infections and gave them Texas names.

Researchers discovered bacteria can convert dissolved uranium into a stable compound that could support future environmental ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

New Jersey health authorities issued high bacteria warnings at 19 swim spots around the state, including 16 in Monmouth ...

The New York City Health Department had confirmed 23 cases and 17 hospitalizations associated with a respiratory infection.

Nearly a century ago, Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll provided the first demonstration of a microscope that could image specimens using electrons rather than light. The earliest images obtained via this ...

A Legionnaires’ disease cluster in New York City has sickened more than 20 people in two Upper East Side neighborhoods.