A dangerous creature lurks in warm Texas lakes, rivers, springs, poorly maintained pools, and splash pads. It's also in the ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

There’s a profound idea behind the Sufi poet Rumi’s phrase, “letting life live through you.” It refers to gaining power through surrender, which sounds like a contradiction. Sitting passively and ...

Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute have developed a model to calculate how quickly or slowly an organism should ideally learn in its surroundings. An organism's ideal ...

The artifacts and antiquities on display at an eastern North Carolina museum are virtually a treasure trove of the unusual, ...

Nov. 18, 2024 — People with chronic liver disease have dramatic changes to the types and functions of bacteria in the gut and mouth, a new study has ...

Standing water, whether in lakes, ponds, or other small bodies, often looks calm and inviting. Many people are drawn to these ...

Luminal amoebicides (such as paromomycin, diloxanide furoate and iodoquinol) act on organisms in the intestinal lumen, but are ineffective against organisms in tissue. Metronidazole (and other ...

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Acrasis kona is a solitary amoeba which builds a multicellular fruiting body, despite being a distant relative of other multicellular eukaryotes. This study analysed A. kona’s genome and ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

Houseflies live close to humans and domesticated animals and because they are so mobile they can easily spread bacteria that make people sick. They carry these disease-causing agents on their body ...