Wildfire smoke is teeming with them. Researchers have employed them to develop energy-dense biofuels like rocket, marine, and jet fuels. Scientists have engineered rice paddies that interact ...

Bacteria have developed sophisticated defense systems to protect themselves from the invasion of bacteriophages. Different defense strategies have been employed to prevent the proliferation of phages.

More than 80% of all known bacterial species are motile at some stage of their life cycle 1. These bacteria navigate toward nutrients or away from unfavorable environments through chemotaxis 2,3,4, ...

Cows are famous for belching methane, a heat-trapping gas that’s contributing to climate change. A single animal can burp 220 pounds of the gas in just one year. What’s more, methane is 28 times more ...

One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...