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Researchers at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in collaboration with researchers ...

Your home, particularly the damp areas, may be crawling with microbes. Here's how to contain them.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

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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 ...

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 ...

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

Microalgae is a confusing organism for biologists to classify because it acts like a plant but has no roots, stems or leaves. Its potential to be a highly efficient producer of, for example, renewable ...