Fill a butter dish with small, smooth stones and water, and gently ease your cuttings into the pebble pile. They'll look ...

After a long day of putting your kitchen to use for meals, snacks, and family functions, many households do a nightly kitchen ...

Microbiome science has deep roots, centuries of fermentation practices, and decades of bacterial taxonomy, but its modern incarnation is only just maturing.

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More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's ...

Experts reveal car steering wheels are dirtier than toilet seats. Learn why this happens, how to clean them, and other car ...

Louisiana anglers Richard Empson and Cornell Arceneaux recount their experiences with vibrio infections, highlighting the dangers of flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters.

We can wash, fluff, and lint-roll our pillows all we want. Ultimately, they are still a dirt and bacteria petri dish.

In her experiment, the Barnstaple-based expert used an agar plate, a thin layer of nutrient gel in a Petri dish, and placed it under a standard hand dryer in a public loo to see what bacteria ...

In fact, the structure of a sponge, with its interlocking cells filled with food and water, means that it grows bacteria better than a Petri dish!

In 2016, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School filled a table-sized petri dish with E. coli bacteria and the antibiotic trimethoprim, which normally ...