When we think about microbes, we think " germs ." We try our best to kill the bacteria, viruses,...  ...d tiny creatures that could make us sick. We kill germs constantly, and rarely ever consider all the bene...

It's a simultaneously beautiful and disgusting work of art. Tasha Sturm of Cabrillo College in Aptos, California sent her 8 and 1/2 year old son outside to play. When he returned, she pressed his hand into a large plate...

When you fart, are you spraying microbes all over? Should we fear the effects of flatulence in a crowd? Science is on the question!“It all started with an enquiry from a nurse,” Dr Karl Kruszelnicki told list...

Apprehensive and inexperienced parents seek out advice from people who are only too happy to tell you the "right" way to bring up baby. Then science tells us that "right" way is baloney. For example, here's a study about...

Each of us have more microbes on and in our bodies...  ...help keep you healthy, by killing disease-causing germs that attempt to invade your nose. Bioethicists a...

by John Trinkaus, Baruch College, City University of New York John Trinkaus was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in literature, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports abo...

Economists do it with spreadsheets and charts. Architects favor balsa wood. But when a biologist needs a model, it’s gotta be alive. Here’s to the tiny critters that have inched our world forward, one microscopic ste...

A lot of people buy clothes and immediately we...  ...prisingly disgusting; many of the items had fecal germs on them and one blouse also had vaginal organisms...  ...others only had one heavily contaminated person's germs . While this isn't usually enough to make you s...

...  ...dollar business idea: a line of plushy germs for the scientifically-minded. With the he...  ...crobes, which makes dozens of cute plush dolls of germs that cause some of life's most miserabl...