A woman in Inglewood says her dream home has become a nightmare after the city's cleaning of sewage lines flooded her home ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Microbes are everywhere—they're the invisible master chemists behind Earth's geochemical cycles, from breaking down rock and organic matter to influencing carbon flow and climate. In this course, ...

Some cell-shocking facts about these microscopic organisms — they may lack bones, bravado, or branding, but they are among ...

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules externally, allowing other community members to share and ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a ...

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

Creating a material of this nature requires remarkable scientific ingenuity because bacteria do not naturally make anything that resembles nylon ...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. shares how his fear of silverware began, tracing it back to an incident during a trip to South Korea.

One way microplastics fuel antibiotic resistance is by acting as “hotspots” for bacteria to interact and exchange genes.

In the fight against antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) superbugs, an important weapon may just be hiding in some polluted stream, ...