Microbiology

Melting permafrost has released zombie anthrax from a 75-year-old reindeer carcass in Siberia.

Iran's briny Lake Urmia recently appeared in satellite images with blood-red waters resembling the aftermath of a particularly gruesome crime scene.

Raw produce causes more illnesses than raw flour, but the FDA would still rather you put down the spoonful of cookie dough.

Women's fallopian tubes and ovaries were once thought to be free of bacteria, but a small new study finds that these microorganisms do live naturally in this part of the reproductive tract.

What's keeping Listeria alive in your freezer?

People bring a lot of bacteria into bathrooms, the researchers found. Within an hour of normal use, there were 500,000 bacterial cells per square inch on the bathroom surfaces, on average.

Got bacteria? If you live in a city, maybe not enough of the good kind.

Cyanobacteria may use their whole body as a light-gathering apparatus, similar to a camera that helps the primitive organisms "see" and move toward light.