Architects and microbiologists are exploring whether making buildings hospitable to friendly microorganisms can improve human ...

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

A research team has shown that methanogens, micro-organisms ubiquitous in low-oxygen environments like aquifers, soil and even permafrost, can propel their growth by dissolving calcium carbonate, one ...

With the continuous expansion of industrial and agricultural activities, the contamination of water bodies and soils by heavy ...

In Namibia’s Etosha National Park, microbes inside elephants and giraffes reveal how wildlife and ecosystems adapt after ...

Researchers have developed a light-emitting sugar probe that exposes how marine microbes break down complex carbohydrates.

Our hands are mirror images of each other. Unless you flip one hand around, they’ll never look the same. Scientists call this chirality, and the mirror-like property is fundamental to all life on ...

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ are increasingly showing up in the environment, our food and drinking water, and throughout our bodies. But we might have a new weapon: scientists have identified a bacterium ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.27 million people every year, and these challenging infections contribute to the deaths of millions more ...

Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut ...