Methane eating microbes could help turn a powerful greenhouse gas into everyday products like animal feed, green plastics, ...

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

While mirror bacteria may sound like a fun time, a group of 40 renowned scientists conclude it is probably not worth the risk.

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Microbes are usually cast as villains, yet most of the microscopic life on and around us is quietly keeping us alive. From the bacteria lining your gut to the organisms drifting in city air, these ...

Trees are known for capturing carbon dioxide as they grow. But they also soak up other gases implicated in climate change through microbes in their bark. The tree bark microbes feast on hydrogen, ...

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

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have developed a comprehensive collection of pollution-fighting ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Scientists have uncovered the cause of auto-brewery syndrome. Certain gut bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...