Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

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.

Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our ...

A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an antimicrobial genetic tool, eliminating its cousins and replacing them as ...

How old are you? It’s a seemingly simple question, yet at the same time complex, with an air of intrusiveness and impropriety ...

Portuguese Man o'War warning, from Sintra to Tavira; Sightings of “unusual numbers” of these hazardous creatures ...