microbes

Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that some microbes can harvest valuable rare-ea…

Our minds were blown yesterday as a team of researchers reported on the discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of…

Scientists have revived microbes found deep beneath the seafloor in 100-million-year-old sediment, dramatically…

A new study has found that the impacts of deep sea mining are still felt a quarter of a century later.

Like other forms of discarded plastic, polyurethane waste threatens the environment and human health. In an…

You won’t see many living things above the ocean surface hundreds of miles southeast of Madagascar—an albatross or…

Meteorites are an unappreciated food source for a specific metal-loving microorganism, according to new research.…

A research team is proposing a major philosophical shift in our thinking about the spread of Earthly microbes in…

It may seem fantastical, but there is a living world deep, deep beneath our feet. Go below the soil, beyond the…

Whether it’s rovers rolling about on Mars, probes drilling into asteroids, or Tesla Roadsters drifting through…

A new study has documented for the first time how certain microorganisms are able to survive the extreme aridity of…

The Black Death, a plague responsible for killing around a third of the population of Europe during the 14th…

The US Centers for Disease Control has released a report in which it identifies over a dozen cases of a deadly,…

Introducing the LudusScope, a 3D-printed, open-sourced system that lets you control and play games with living…

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a tiny green microbe joined forces with a fungus, and together they conquered the…

Winemaking is always an exercise in uncertainty. You don’t really know just what the wine will taste like until the…

Here’s a way to make environmental cleanup more fun: Next time you’ve got a polluted waterway, just unleash a swarm…

Discovering life on another planet, only to contaminate that world with our own pesky microbes, is one of NASA’s…

Researchers working off the Shimokita Peninsula in Japan have discovered living microbes buried 8,000 feet below the…

By pitting various strains of bacteria against one another, researchers from Vanderbilt University have stumbled…