bacteria

Izzy Rodney reviews the taste, health benefits and extraordinary science behind the newest-craze drink, Kombucha...

A group of undergraduate students from the University of Nottingham are working to develop a new detection system that can “sniff out” when food packaging and preservation methods fail and allow the growth of dangerous botulinum bacteria. These bacteria can cause a type of food poisoning which may result...

Microbial life can exist across a wide spectrum of conditions – far greater than us rather impressive but limited multicellular vertebrates. Whenever there is any discussion of extra-terrestrial life or evolutionarily biology, someone chips in, in rather a jolly fashion, that extra-terrestrial life is likely to be microbial. We find microbes...