You could read nothing but science fiction for decades and still never come across the term “cyborg bacteria.” And now cyborg bacteria are a real thing. Scientists have attached non-organic ...

Manipulating microbes to work for us has been a staple of human civilization for millennia, since we learned how to use yeast to make bread and booze. In a modern breakthrough, scientists have now ...

Artist's rendering of bioreactor (left) loaded with bacteria decorated with cadmium sulfide, light-absorbing nanocrystals (middle) to convert light, water and carbon dioxide into useful chemicals ...