More information: Peipei Xue et al, The Biogeography of Soil Bacteria in Australia Exhibits Greater Resistance to Climate Change Than Fungi, Global Change Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70268 ...

A small but mighty microbe that can safely extract the rare earth and other critical elements for building everything from satellites to solar panels has another superpower: capturing carbon dioxide.

Scientists have long recognized human skin as a vibrant ecosystem that's home to millions of microorganisms. Our skin microbiome includes bacteria, fungi, and viruses; all playing a key role in ...

Chemotherapy doesn’t just kill cancer cells. It also affects the microbes in the digestive tract. Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered that some gut bacteria can reduce the side effects of ...

It felt like a “violent intervention” for an ecosystem, Hénaff said, even one as damaged as the Gowanus Canal. They wanted to know what, exactly, that ecosystem looked like. So they paddled out on ...

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.

Eventually, the bacteria are removed from the fermenter, pasteurized, and dried. The final product—dubbed Solein—is about 75 percent protein, has a yellow hue, and tastes a bit like mushrooms.

The company says that after growing, harvesting, and drying the microbes, the resulting powder is more than 85% protein and could be added to all sorts of food products, for either humans or animals.

Scientists had previously demonstrated that a microbe called Acidimicrobium sp. strain A6 could break down carbon-fluorine bonds and completely degrade two of the most ubiquitous perfluoroalkyls.

Life Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the earliest ...

But the world of microbes plays by different rules. In 2020, for example, scientists successfully revived 100-million-year-old microbes, making them the longest-lived microbes known to science.

After the PET has broken down in the ammonium hydroxide, the liquid is moved to another reactor, where it is consumed by a colony of microbes. Techtmann initially thought he would need to go to a ...