In a 2014 Nature paper, Ralston described this awkward process — trogocytosis, or “cell nibbling.” It was a revelation at the ...

When the weather heats up and children begin to sweat, they can easily get dehydrated if they do not replace their body ...

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, which were discovered in waste-water sludge in the early 1990s, have the unique metabolic ability to combine ammonium and nitrite or nitrate to ...

Sure, it's possible to drown in a puddle, but these U.S. lakes pose extra dangers. If you decide to swim in any of these ...

New research shows that harmful E. coli bacteria in the gut can make the amoeba parasite Entamoeba histolytica more mobile ...

The most common way people swimming inland get sick is by swallowing the water. How much you consume matters: “If you swallow ...