The City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Environmental Services says that a recent test of an effluent sample taken from Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant is within the daily permit ...

The human gut microbiome—a dense and diverse ecosystem of microorganisms—plays a critical role in overall health. It aids in digestion, regulates immunity, and even provides resistance to harmful ...

[Enterococcus faecalis is a Gram-positive bacterial species that lives in the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and other mammals and can cause difficult-to-treat infections in humans, especially ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...

and Enterococcus faecalis. The fact that bacteria across species respond to the same danger signal suggests a universal survival strategy. "Interestingly, human immune cells also recognize ...

"These molecules act as a general danger signal recognized not only by conspecifics but also by bacteria of different species," says Drescher "Peptidoglycans are released when bacteria are killed ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...