You probably rinse your kitchen scrubber after washing dishes and assume that is enough to keep it clean. After all, it ...

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An apple’s most useful part for digestion never gets absorbed. The soluble fiber called pectin travels the full length of the ...

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Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...

Synthetic microbial communities give researchers controlled models for testing how diet reshapes gut microbial ecology, ...

Microorganisms from our planet could survive on celestial bodies where water is present, such as Mars. That is the conclusion ...

Refillable deodorants have elbowed their way into bathroom cabinets and promise fresher pits while resulting in less ...

Plastic has a habit of staying around long after its useful life has ended. Some materials can be collected and recycled with relative ease, while others prove far more stubborn.

Vayu Hill-Maini's lab has created a new cheese, or at least something that tastes like cheese, but is actually made from food waste. The bioengineer, who runs a lab at Stanford University in ...

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 ...