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Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Hits California [VIDEO]

Alien Life Found in Meteorites? Scientist's Claim Stirs Debate

Ladies and gentlemen, start your ET debate engines. A NASA biologist has claimed he discovered microfossil organisms -- ancient bacteria -- inside slices of rare meteorites that fell to Earth and were found in France, Tanzania, India, Canada and the icy Yamato Mountains of Antarctica. After the Journal of Cosmology...

New Year's Day Hangover? Have Some Honey

If you're planning on knocking back a few drinks this New Year's Eve, you'd better have plenty of honey on hand. Not for some fancy cocktail concoction but for the hangover that's sure to follow on New Year's Day. That's the word from Ted Pollard, founder of Health911.com, a website dedicated to providing safe and natural...

NASA's Bacteria-Arsenic Finding: 'Flim-Flam' or 'Compelling'?

(Dec. 8) -- NASA defended research that argued certain bacteria could consume arsenic after a barrage of criticism from the scientific community. Last week, NASA scientists said they had coaxed bacteria into incorporating arsenic into DNA in place of phosphorous. Arsenic is usually toxic; phosphorous is considered a...

Viral Hit of the Worst Kind: Flu Season Meets iPads, Touch Screens

(Oct. 14) -- How to keep a hot spot from becoming a hot zone of germs? Over the past year, touch-screen technology has swept the globe. And now, with the start of cold and flu season, the world is about to experience just how social old-fashioned viruses can be. The same week it was announced that Apple had reached a...

Background on bacteria

Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals.

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