BOSTON — Microbes found stowed inside giant crystals in caves in Chihuahua ... of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are not close to any known genus scientists ...

So it was a bit of a surprise to find that there are giant viruses that carry far more ... This will provide DNA sequence data on all of the different microbes living in it, as well as the ...

Explorers are puzzling out nature's purpose behind the discovery of an astonishing variety of tiny ocean creatures like microbes and ... (2.4 mi), challenges the science. So too do the contrasts ...

Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science ... harmful microbe. Named Naegleriavirus, these belong to the giant ...

“Giant viruses” sound like some sort of terrifying science fiction creation ... others content themselves with infecting algae and other microbes. In doing so, they can prove surprisingly ...

"Geobacter breathe through what is essentially a giant snorkel, hundreds of times their size," Nikhil Malvankar, an assistant professor at Yale University's Microbial Science Institute in ...

The discovery of this new microbe is not immediately concerning but warrants careful study,” Javier Martin-Torres, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland professor of planetary science, said in an ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

"You know, that is pretty nasty." Beyond figuring out what kinds of microbes would grow in tanks full of urine, condensed sweat and shower water, Roman and her team had to address another ...

ANNA ROTHSCHILD: This is Science Friday. I’m Anna Rothschild. When we think about Earth, we’re inclined to think of a giant rock floating around in ... like pollen grains and microbes and fungal ...