Rice is a staple food for billions of people around the planet, but a new study suggests climate change may increase arsenic ...

You may know that caring for your gut microbiome could help you live longer. But brushing and flossing your teeth is also a ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through ...

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The ...

Scientists discovered a new phylum of bacteria in the Earth’s Critical Zone which was repsonsible for supporting life, that could help conservation.

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

An unknown group of microbes is thriving in Earth's deep soil and they’re quietly helping to clean the water that becomes our ...

If you've been thinking of trying a probiotic supplement but aren’t exactly sure how to choose the best one, we did the ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.

New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...

S trep infections are most well known for causing strep throat, which can be treated with antibiotics. But this type of ...