Among the many trillions of microorganisms in the human gut is Blautia luti. Like many gut bacteria, it metabolizes ...

In winter sports, lugers slide at more than 90 miles per hour, hockey players send the puck zipping across the ice at 100 mph ...

In the weightlessness of space, bacteria acquired mutations in genes involved in the microbe's stress response and nutrient ...

When snow blankets the landscape, it may seem like life slows down. But beneath the surface, an entire world of activity is ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

Mars has long been painted as a dead world of dust and radiation, a place where human visitors would survive only inside ...

Groundwater hides dense communities of rock-bound microbes that shape water quality and help store carbon below ground.

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

A research team from POSTECH and ImmunoBiome in Korea, led by Professor Sin-Hyeog Im, has uncovered a new mechanism showing ...

"Like any good animal, we sense the change of seasons through a hundred subtle clues. Leaves change and shed, becoming crispy ...

Despite the fact that 68% of the world’s population has trouble digesting lactose, a naturally occurring milk sugar, global ...