In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

Introduction Waste management can be defined as the systematic collection, transportation, processing, recycling, and disposal of waste materials with the objective of minimising adverse impacts on ...

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite ...

Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania, home to the microorganism Psychrobacter SC65A.3 (Paun V.I.) Scientists have discovered 5,000-year-old bacteria, Psychrobacter SC65A.3, frozen in an ancient underground ...

A new study has found widespread traces of antibiotic‑resistant bacteria in Oxford's river systems, prompting calls for year‑round water sampling. In the study, tests were carried out at four sites ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing ...