Microbes are part of the food we eat and can influence our own microbiome, but we know very little about the microbes in our foods. Now, researchers have developed a database of the "food microbiome" ...

Turns out, a little less scrubbing is actually better for your home. Homes have their own microbiomes made up of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes, and more diversity is actually better for your ...

On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...