Scientists warn that a dangerous superbug capable of digesting medical plastic is silently spreading through hospitals, threatening patient safety worldwide.

testosteroni’s eating habits so closely that they ... testosteroni’s ability to break down plastic. Though the bacteria are ...

Every so often, a new study about plastic-eating bacteria gets published in a scientific journal. Shortly thereafter, it flashes across the internet as it gets picked up by a flurry of ...

Eating plastic, it’s fantastic ... scientists conducted a month-long trial that helped shed light on their gut bacteria. The worms were fed either plastic polystyrene alone, bran (a nutrient ...

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time – and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

From discovering plastic-eating bacterium to finding a new catalytic ... A previous version of this story incorrectly used the plural form “bacteria,” implying that the Aristilde Lab was ...