Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station, and the changes these 'bugs' experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Methane eating microbes could help turn a powerful greenhouse gas into everyday products like animal feed, green plastics, ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways associated with differences in brain size and cognitive function A new study sug ...

Learn more about the hunt for bacteria on Mars and how astronauts will need to make sure they aren't bringing any dormant ...

The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research ...