Before, scientists believed a bacteria’s size was limited by the distance molecules taken from the environment can travel. That meant that nutrients needed to travel from the bacteria’s outer ...

"These grains are only one millionth of a meter across — about the size of a single bacterium," the European Space Agency, which jointly leads JWST with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency ...

Bacteria are too small to be seen by the naked eye and yet are the most diverse group of organisms on Earth. The individual cell averages just one micrometer in size (for context, an average human ...

Our research demonstrates that bacteria can do the latter, which was previously thought beyond their capabilities due to ...

a bacterium that preys upon other bacteria. The team thought it might be a good candidate for finding histones because the bacterium changes size throughout its lifecycle and thus would need to ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals, which function as tiny compasses that allow the microbes to navigate using Earth's geomagnetic field. Earth's iron cycle is a very ...

Bacteria are roughly 20-times smaller than human cells, while viruses are around 100-times smaller. This size difference helped scientists in the late 19th Century begin the slow process of ...