It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, ...

Wildlife populations that become small and isolated, often due to habitat loss, inevitably experience inbreeding which can lead to the loss of fitness and eventual extinction. One solution is to ...

ABSTRACT: This study, conducted from 15 January to 15 May 2025 in Conakry, assessed the microbiological and nutritional profiles of weaning flours, porridges, and purées made from local products ...

Streptococcus suis represents a growing zoonotic pathogen, exacerbated by increasing antimicrobial resistance due to a widespread and often inappropriate antimicrobial use. This escalating challenge ...

Bacteria aren't just mindless microbes. New research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that single bacterial cells can carry a "memory" of their past environments-passing it down through ...

Voters in eastern Oregon, Salem and other largely rural areas with prisons have a greater say in the state House than other Oregonians because of how the state calculates where incarcerated Oregonians ...

Automated image analysis has transformed the traditional approach to colony counting in microbiology, offering objective, reproducible and high‐throughput solutions that overcome the labour-intensive ...

This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...