Sherbrooke, Que.-based BioAlert Solutions has raised a $2.5-million seed round to expand the reach of its automated water ...

The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) in Palm Beach County is advising residents to stay out of the water near Dubois ...

A small team of materials scientists and chemical engineers at Qingdao University, in China, has developed a self-powered, three-component biosensor that can kill bacteria in water samples.

But there are other cases where high temperatures can kill germs — boiling water to kill off bacteria in food products, using a dishwasher to sterilize plates, or washing and drying clothes to ...

Bacteria that can degrade the common plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) have been discovered in industrial waste water 1. The research, published in the journal Microbiology, offers insight ...