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bacteria

A red car and a large salt truck drive on a snowy road next to a mountain.
Science
Can bacteria help us prevent salt damage to concrete roads and bridges?
Magnified red microbes float among a yellow background
Medicine
A micro safari through household germs reveals that cleanliness isn’t always a good thing
microbiome
Health
Not just gut bugs: Our microbiomes can even affect cancer treatments
Health
Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads
clouds
Science
Bacteria are thriving in the sky — and they influence the weather
A syringe.
Health
Mining nature for the next groundbreaking antibiotic
Microscopic synthetic structures are specially shaped objects that perform or move in intended ways when acted on by swarms of bacteria.
Science
The dawn of the cyborg bacteria is here