Enlarge / Certain species of beetle have evolved unusual “back pockets” to safely house symbiotic bacteria during metamorphosis—the only known instance of this among insects. reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating Share this story Certain species of beetle have evolved unusual “back pockets” to safely house symbiotic bacteria during metamorphosis—the only known instance of ..
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Enlarge / The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago partnered with microbiologists at Northwestern University to find out why chloroquine kept disappearing from the water in the quarantine habitat. reader comments 90 with 70 posters participating Share this story Founded in 1930, Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is not just a popular tourist attraction. Its staff also aids in ..
Enlarge / University of California, Riverside scientists suspended fresh pieces of raw chicken from branches to attract carrion-feeding “vulture bees” in Costa Rica. Quinn McFrederick/UCR reader comments 84 with 55 posters participating Share this story Ask a random person to picture a bee, and they’ll likely conjure up the familiar black-and-yellow striped creature buzzing from flower ..
Enlarge / Sampling microbes from Leonardo da Vinci’s Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (1512). Guadalupe Piñar et al. reader comments 37 with 18 posters participating Share this story Microbiomes are all the scientific rage, even in art conservation, where studying the microbial species that congregate on works of art may lead to new ..
Enlarge / The middle image shows the painting as it now appears, with close-ups of four centuries of damage and wear on the right. The asterisks mark the locations of Caselli and her colleagues’ samples. CC BY license, with permission from reader comments 48 with 31 posters participating Share this story A new study describes ..
Enlarge / Lactobacillus acidophilus and L. casei cultured from a commercial probiotic food gel sold in health food stores. (credit: Getty | Scimat) There’s a pungent cloud of hype and hope around probiotics—and researchers have long tried to clear the air about what the bowel-blasting products can ( and mostly can’t) do. Now, a new ..
Enlarge / A woman wearing a surgical mask washing her hands with a hand sanitizer. (credit: Getty | Andia) Popular hand sanitizers may be heading the way of antibiotics, according to a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine. Bacteria gathered from two hospitals in Australia between 1997 and 2015 appeared to gradually get ..
Researchers found these spewing bacteria and spores. reader comments 112 Share this story Washing your grubby mitts is one of the all-time best ways to cut your chances of getting sick and spreading harmful germs to others. But using the hot-air dryers common in bathrooms can undo that handy hygienic work. Hot-air dryers suck in ..
Enlarge / Viral gold. reader comments 59 Share this story Plumbing the depths of women’s bladders may shower researchers with viral gold. In a wee survey, Loyola University Chicago researchers found the sac-like organ brimming with never-before-seen viruses that can kill and manipulate bacteria. Their findings, published this week in the Journal of Bacteriology, offer ..