It never flows into the back half of the gut. That end of the organ has been transformed from a site of digestion, into an apartment complex for microbes. Our guts are full of bacteria and other ...

More specifically, there’s the Giant Microbes plush Ebola toy, which turns the deadly disease into a cute and cuddly learning tool that helps kids understand that while the furry fella might be ...

Air conditioners are a host to an array of bacteria and fungal species ... commonly found in both air conditioning units and single-room air conditioners. Results confirmed that the keratin ...

A person's mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every hour — material largely left behind by previous occupants and stirred up from the floor, according to new research.

Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Researchers say each person sheds 37 million bacteria per hour each hour spent occupying a room. (Jeremy Wilburn: Flickr) Our ...

Few places are as hard for microbes to infiltrate as the clean rooms in which NASA assembles its spacecraft. Those drifting in through the air must run a gauntlet of filters. Those hitching a ride ...

They found rooms with copper alloy materials had significantly lower concentrations of bacteria upon completion of terminal cleaning. Vacant rooms with traditional surfaces harbored "significant ...

The creation of Dallas twin brothers Blake and Brandon Shirk, the new hotel has just 39 plush but small rooms. At an average ... the world before coming back to Dallas. The hotel is a project ...

The previously unknown microbe was tough enough to survive stringent sterilization at two locations. Might it survive a trip to Mars? High atop a platform inside a clean room at the European Space ...

Nasa does not need to travel to the stars to find new forms of life – it has discovered a new species of bacteria living in the special rooms used to build spacecraft. The US space agency uses ...

Charmin toilet paper Monday lifted the lid on its bank of free “plush rest rooms” that will stay open ... Charmin said it brought back the public toilets for a second straight holiday season ...