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

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

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

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

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

In mice, the oral bacteria F. nucleatum can travel to mammary tissue via the bloodstream, where it can damage healthy cells.

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 ...

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