A death linked to listeria in Italian-style deli meats have prompted the Centers for Disease Control to issue a warning to consumers. The type of meat hasn’t yet been identified, nor has the supplier, but so far 10 people have been hospitalized in Florida, Massachusetts, and New York.
While canning food requires lots of care—and means closely following recipes and directions—it’s not actually difficult.
For decades, astronomers have theorized microbes could drift through the vastness of space like pollen in the wind, planting the seeds of life across the cosmos. New research from the astrobiology mission “Tanpopo,” appropriately named ‘dandelion’ in Japanese, suggests they very well might be.
Health blogs and diet websites often tout antioxidants as a cure-all for gut health. But the story of the gut microbiome and its role in disease is murkier than most news stories might lead you to believe.
A study of the Pappy Lane shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina found bacteria that hasten corrosion as well as species that may help preserve the ship or make it a more enticing habitat for other marine life forms. Understanding these diverse communities of microbes will help us better conserve the ships they call home.
If one good thing comes out of the pandemic, it’s that people start thinking more critically about any sort of laboratory test.
Every bite of cheese you’ve ever taken owes its funk and flavor to the community of microbes living inside it. The original cheese just had whatever microbes happened to be living on the farm, but today cheesemakers deliberate inoculate their dairy with specific types of bacteria and mold.
The cheeses that sit on our grocery shelves today are nearly all Western, and that’s shaped our perception of this snack, filling, topping, and (admit it) meal.
Far beyond our solar system, rocky planets with atmospheres dominated by hydrogen gas could potentially support life, indicates a paper published this week in Nature Astronomy.
The Fox tunnel is one of only two underground facilities dedicated exclusively to the scientific study of permafrost where a visitor can actually walk around inside the frozen earth.
