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

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

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with the University of the Virgin Islands ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

Cleaning and disinfecting are not the same thing, and there are plenty of items in your home that could be harboring germs if ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

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

Metagenomic sequencing of tree bark microbiota indicated their ability to process some atmospheric gases, highlighting their ...

Australian researchers have discovered a hidden climate superpower of trees. Their bark harbors trillions of microbes that ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...

There are more microbes in a gram of feces than there are people on the planet. Contrary to the cutting-edge scientific ...