In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

According to previous HuffPost reporting, this sponge conundrum is made worse by the fact that cleaning your sponges may not be as effective as you’d hope — in fact, it can even increase certain types ...

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From fecal transplants to phage cocktails, scientists reveal how gut viruses could unlock precision medicine for digestive diseases and beyond.

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July arrives with a quiet sprawl of exhibitions that ask different questions: about memory, language, loss and the shape of ...

With the right knowledge, we can intentionally shape these microbial communities ... air sampling—a method for collecting airborne bacteria and fungi—to measure bacterial and fungal counts under ...