This Parasite Turns Plants Into Zombies

It’s a never-ending cycle of “Night of the Living Dead-meets-Dracula” in the world of green and leafy things.

How Fermented Foods May Alter Your Microbiome and Improve Your Health

Foods like yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha increased the diversity of gut microbes and led to lower levels of inflammation.

Subway Swabbers Find a Microbe Jungle and Thousands of New Species

A team of international researchers has assembled an atlas of microorganisms present in 60 cities around the world.

Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light

The study, a tour de force in bioengineering, comes after two decades of research on brain-to-brain synchrony in people.