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 time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel ...

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

Scientists from Yale University have found that early exposure to various microbes and proteins forms a broad immune memory ...

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

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

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

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

In mice, the oral bacteria F. nucleatum can travel to mammary tissue via the bloodstream, where it can damage healthy cells.

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact.

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

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research ...