In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of ...

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.

Microbes that hitched a ride into orbit are not just surviving in space, they are changing in ways that give them startling ...

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 ...

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

Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

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

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

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

The colour in our clothes has many serious environmental consequences, from the use of fossil fuel by-products to manufacture dyes to the heavily polluted water left after dyeing. But a UK-based ...

The coffee-eating elephants developed a unique microbial community. Specifically, researchers found a surge in Acinetobacter bacteria—a group known for hanging out on coffee beans—suggesting the beans ...