Our area beaches can provide an oasis for thousands of people looking to make the most of summer, but the environmental ...

With the temperatures rising people are wanting to go swim in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, but are they safe to swim and what are the changes necessary to keep the waters safe.

Several beaches in Metro Vancouver have a swimming advisory in effect due to high levels of E. coli. They include Second ...

In laboratories, bacteria are often kept in pure culture. In the natural environment, however, they live together in complex and well-structured bacterial communities. These play a major role in the ...

But they’re also the likeliest types of bacteria you’ll encounter in a swimming hole, thanks to fecal contamination from humans or, more likely, animals, Sullivan says.

Bacteria that cause intestinal infections typically avoid a stinky chemical—one that can kill them at high enough ...

Swimming bacteria and spermatozoa use whip-like flagella to propel themselves. The findings show the tiny swimmers are able to increase their speed while consuming less energy because of the ...

Swimming bacteria can reduce the viscosity of ordinary liquids like water and make them flow more easily, sometimes down to the point where the viscosity becomes zero: the flow is then frictionless.

Light-reactive swimming bacteria can be controlled to form different shapes. A team of researchers from Rome University (Italy) has engineered Escherichia coli to produce a protein called ...

Swimming microbots could help purify water by hunting down and killing bacteria, before being removed with magnets American Chemical Society View 1 Image ...

Swimming bacteria can reduce the viscosity of ordinary liquids like water and make them flow more easily, sometimes down to the point where the viscosity becomes zero: the flow is then frictionless.