Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria. Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by ...

Before that point, infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera ... save countless lives each year by killing illness-causing bacteria, our good gut bacteria can also become collateral damage ...

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the slippery goo on river rocks, for example—and in industrial ...