The mangroves of the Caribbean bristle with life. White herons spear fish with their bills and black and red crabs skitter over the sprawling, spidery tree roots. And then there are the thin, white ...

A team of researchers have discovered a bacteria that has broken the theoretical limits of how big bacteria can grow. The bacteria was found swimming in the French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, ...

Penicillin was hailed as "the silver bullet" when it was discovered, as it had the unprecedented quality of being able to kill disease-causing bacteria without harming the human body. Since then, a ...

On sunken leaves in the waters of a Caribbean mangrove swamp, researchers discovered a bacterium that challenges the prevailing view of bacterial cell size; counter to the notion that microbes are ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We all know that eukaryotes are bigger than ...