A new Caltech study indicates that drought increases the abundances of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in soils, which ...
The soil beneath our feet is a huge carbon bank storing up to approximately three times more carbon than the entire ...
Tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics, are showing up everywhere, even in the water in clouds, rain, and snow—and they ...
Bacteria that colonize tiny plastic fragments drifting through the atmosphere can significantly enhance those particles’ ...
Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...
It is possible that extremophile microbes lcould exist on icy moons and planets with conditions similar to subglacial waters ...
The trillions of microbes living in the human gut are increasingly recognized as important partners in human health.
Recent research indicates a link between an animal’s gut bacteria and brain function. This may be true in humans, too.
Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their ...
Not even an asteroid blast could kill it.
The experiment began with a straightforward prediction: microbes from older mice would age young ovaries. But when the ...