There's something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat in Oregon.

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space ...

These bacteria can degrade many xenobiotic compounds and so have the potential to be agents for bioremediation. S. maltophilia is the only species of Stenotrophomonas that is known to cause human ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

Data collected by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research at the University of Porto (CIIMAR-UP) showed the research ...

These aren't the first bacteria to be discovered in space but they are particularly well-adapted for space station life.

At the top level of this taxonomy, all species are grouped into either one of the domains of bacteria ... order, family, genus and species. Any biologist who first discovers a new species ...

How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...