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

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and ...

In an experiment simulating harsh Martian conditions, including X-ray radiation, scientists discovered that certain lichens ...

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

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

"Most people would think that these organisms are just like spores or dormant," James Tiedje said. "These microbes are active ...

Clickbait headlines aside, German researchers are reporting some interesting findings from a recent mountain-bike tire study.

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate ...

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

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...