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Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants. Ten years ...

Astronauts living in isolated, sanitized space habitats for long periods of time could stay healthier by being exposed to a greater variety of microbes from Earth, according to a new study.

Experts say the virus could become a larger problem if it gets passed to endangered whooping cranes Sarah Kuta Humans have evolved alongside microbes in Earth's environment that help strengthen ...

To that end, they studied bacteria that feed on the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and turn them into acetic acid -- a metabolic pathway that emerged very early in evolution. The international ...

The water is acidic—sometimes as acidic as stomach acid. Microbes in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park have evolved to live in such extreme circumstances. To understand the communities ...

One would think that astronauts’ living quarters in space need to be perfectly sterilized, but it turns out that creating a "dirtier" environment with more microbes from Earth may boost their health.

The goal of the new study was to find out what microbes and chemicals were in each of those modules, how they spread from module to module, where they came from, and how they compare to microbial ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown ...

Researchers at Kobe University have discovered that gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also metabolize sugar that the body transfers from the circulation into the ...

The team found an "extreme" low diversity of bacteria, which suggests that the sterile nature of the ISS could be causing astronauts to get ill. Scientists are working on ways of introducing a ...