When antibiotics attack microbes, their stressed neighbors ship them proteins to help them survive, new work suggests.

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

A flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus is quietly expanding its reach along the U.S. coastline — and climate change is accelerating its spread. Scientists at the University of Florida are ...

A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be? Bailey Magers and Sunil Kumar cut strange figures on Pensacola Beach. Bags of disinfectant solution surrounded them on ...

On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...

Warming waters are pushing the dreaded flesh-eating bacteria up the Atlantic coast. Experts explain who's at risk and how worried you really need to be. Reading time 13 minutes Bailey Magers and Sunil ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with States Newsroom. It is part of the Grist series Vital Signs, exploring the ways climate change affects your health. This reporting initiative is ...

Maddy Buxton, Culture & Trends manager at YouTube, discusses how creators and digital animation on the platform are global, fan-driven, popular among young adults, and driving innovation and ...

A Université de Montréal study has found a previously unknown mechanism in bacterial reproduction that could be attacked by future antibiotics. Bacteria reproduce by dividing into two: they form a ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...