Traditional battery disposal poses environmental challenges, as many contain toxic materials that can contaminate soil and ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify 25 new protein compounds that can kill bacteria and fungi, ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, ...

Here’s how the fungal battery, developed at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), is able to generate electricity. Strictly speaking, Empa researchers explain, ...

Mitochondria organelles came from primordial bacterial endosymbionts and still preserve distinct genes for important ...

While we've seen work on bacteria-powered batteries before, the researchers note this is the first time two types of fungi have been brought together to create a working fuel cell. And to be clear ...

Symptoms of fungal skin infection that should not be ignored are Irritation, itching, swelling, blisters, and more.

By using fungi and bacteria as model organisms, the study sheds new light on the evolution of these delicate relationships, ...