#microbiology

#microbiology

From a remarkable demonstration of flower self-pollination to algae swimming in a water droplet in a Japanese 50 Yen coin, the winners of this year's Nikon Small World in Motion competition capture some of the natural world's most beautiful, otherworldly, and otherwise invisible phenomena. The top prize was awarded to Michigan-based photographer Jay McClellan, who captured a timelapse of a thymeleaf speedwell flower, incorporating image stacking techniques to depict the blossom at 5x magnification. McClellan's video of crystallizing cobalt, copper, and sodium chlorides was awarded an honorable mention, too.

Vibrio bacteria thrive in warm coastal waters and can cause severe illness, including vibriosis, particularly as climate change warms previously cooler regions.

The phone will at some point get contaminated, so periodically disinfecting your phone is a good idea,

The Justinianic Plague in 541 killed nearly 50 million, followed by the Black Death claiming a third of Europe, and the third pandemic in 1855 took 12 million lives.

Police believe that Alessandro Coatti was lured to his death by a group of thieves targeting victims on Grindr, marking a disturbing trend in Colombia.

"Jumping into even the prettiest and clearest rivers, lakes, creeks, and other natural bodies of water can expose you to a cesspool of unpleasant and invisible fellow swimmers..."

Niallia tiangongensis, a newly discovered bacterium from China's Tiangong space station, adapts to space with unique survival mechanisms, marking a significant space microbiology finding.

Lloyd brings the reader along as she collects gas-rich sediments and microbial mats aboard a deep-sea submersible in the Gulf of Mexico.

We wanted to understand the surface interactions and why this toxin is so pervasive, said Satchell, who is also a professor of Microbiology-Immunology...