Researchers at two U.S. universities have answered the age-old question of how to use burnt pancakes and E. coli to create more-efficient sorting algorithms. The researchers’ study was conducted by ...

After nine months spent as a growing life in someone else’s body, the second a baby is born, they begin growing life in their own body: colonies of tiny bacterial cells ready to begin populating a ...

Bacteria are usually seen as boring. Tiny blobs. Always blamed for infections. Not exactly the stars of science. But here comes the surprise: bacteria are secretly chatting with each other. Not with ...