Mono Lake bacteria: A Dec. 23 article in Section A about a bacteria from Mono Lake that may be able to survive on the toxic element arsenic quoted Harry Collins, who studies the sociology of ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Take a simmering broth of fast-swirling news on the blogosphere and Twitter, stir in some arsenic bacteria and add a pinch of "extraterrestrial." The media explosion that followed has ...

The September death of Michael Funk was unexpected, to say the least. One day, the Arizona resident was cleaning crab pots outside his bayside Ocean City condo. Four days later, he was dead. His fatal ...

MADISON, Wis. -- If you're made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death. A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the building blocks necessary for making new plants ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Virginia teacher is sharing a painful lesson after losing her husband to a rare but deadly flesh-eating bacterium called vibrio. Joyce D'Arcy is mourning her husband Derek's ...

A new analysis of a group of bacteria called Streptomyces reveals the way some strains of the microbe developed advanced abilities to tear up cellulose, and points out more efficient ways we might ...