Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day. Credit: ...

All vaccines work by training our immune systems to recognise a harmless piece of a virus or bacteria so that when the real ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. ..

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have developed a comprehensive collection of pollution-fighting ...

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

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 LARQ PureVis 2 is another self-cleaning water bottle. The company says the plant-based filter in the lid removes chlorine ...

Unlike surface microbes, they thrive in nutrient-poor environments and contribute significantly to water purification by breaking down carbon and nitrogen compounds washed down from above. Next, ...

The disease, which is a severe form of pneumonia, is spread by an infection with legionella bacteria ... “People are exposed if contaminated water particles from a cooling system are in the ...