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 ...
A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...
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 ...
Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...
Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...
"Like any good animal, we sense the change of seasons through a hundred subtle clues. Leaves change and shed, becoming crispy ...
A new study reveals how bacteria in the gut can help determine whether the amino acid asparagine from the diet will feed ...
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 ...