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Luxury hotels clean up their act after filthy sanitation practices, including using the same sponge to clean cups, toilets ...

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Spending time with close companions might do more than strengthen bonds—it could also reshape your gut bacteria. In a study ...

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Plastic trash has reached the world's most remote locations, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Everest. Hundreds of plastic-eating microbes that could help us clean up have been ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding the origins of complex life on Earth after shedding new light on a mystery about our microbial ancestors. The key, they suspect, may lie in how simple ...

The extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the pressures developed during ejection from Mars as a result of massive asteroid impact. Craters on the Moon and Mars show how ...