In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

When snow blankets the landscape, it may seem like life slows down. But beneath the surface, an entire world of activity is ...

In the weightlessness of space, bacteria acquired mutations in genes involved in the microbe's stress response and nutrient ...

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

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

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

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

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

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

"Like any good animal, we sense the change of seasons through a hundred subtle clues. Leaves change and shed, becoming crispy ...

Scientists from Yale University have found that early exposure to various microbes and proteins forms a broad immune memory ...

Despite the fact that 68% of the world’s population has trouble digesting lactose, a naturally occurring milk sugar, global ...