Kitchen sponges, commonly used for everyday cleaning, can harbour harmful bacteria that could potentially lead to ...

Bacteria have been found that can alter encoded proteins by using the trick of sequence inversion inside genes. Random ...

The findings could reshape our understanding of ancient food production and microbial fermentation practices in early ...

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global crisis, and it's turning common infections like UTIs, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and ...

Researchers have discovered and analyzed DNA from the world's oldest cheese, found with the Tarim Basin mummies in China, ...

How often do you clean your washing machine? Believe it or not, we're supposed to do this at least every one to three months.

The world’s oldest cheese, dating back 3,600 years, has revealed the origin of trendy kefir. Kefir is a type of fermented ...

Head over to TikTok and you might find yourself watching hundreds of videos of people brandishing wands. No, you’re not back ...

It might not look like it’s gone off but there may be all sorts of nasties lurking in that two-day-old hummus in your fridge ...

With strong bactericidal properties, graphene has the potential to become a game changer in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. So far there have been no efficient ways to control these ...