Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

New research has uncovered how a simple circadian clock network demonstrates advanced noise-filtering capabilities, enhancing ...

Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed ...

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

Decades of industrialisation have polluted the waters of Italy's Mar Piccolo and brought mussel farming to its knees. Can ...

A chemical radar allows bacteria to sense and eliminate predators. Investigating how microorganisms communicate deepens our ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

An unknown group of microbes is thriving in Earth's deep soil and they’re quietly helping to clean the water that becomes our ...

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once ...

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...