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Tea is just about to become even more delicious.
One man's shipwreck is another microbe's treasure.
Bacteria don’t have sex to reproduce; they use it to stay alive and healthy.
"If you gave me your shoe, I could tell you with about 90% accuracy the city you came from," the authors boast.
Human visitors to Mars could bring along numerous microscopic colonizers. That's both good and bad.
There's no such thing as 'clean' smoke, microbes can survive in it.
It's honest work.
“The lower ocean crust is one of the last frontiers of the exploration for life on Earth," said the researchers.
Microbes were found in rocks 700 meters below the bottom of the ocean.
Urban homes are artificial environments that foster fungi development.
Mucus contains sugars that can interfere with bacteria’s communication and behavior, a new study found.
Farm microbes could help reduce asthma risk.
Surprisingly, it was easier for us to go to the Moon than to develop such a tool.
Appear weak where you are strong. Appear strong where you are weak. Show "humility in the face of natural selection."
Unexpected but not unwelcome!
Getting the upper hand against germs.
Although their evolutionary paths diverged very early on, liverworts and other plants use similar proteins to fight off molds.
It's a pretty metal solution.
If there are any, aliens should be less conspicuous and charismatic-looking than most people think.
What we don't know can't hurt us, right? Right? Guys?..
Antibiotic resistance is threatening to undo a centuy's worth of medical progress.
Bacteria are creating whole new ecosystems in fracking wells.
Each city has its own distinct germ cloud comprised of a unique microbial population and distribution, according to scientists at Northern Arizona University.
An isolated bay in the heart of East Africa offers scientists a glimpse into early Earth's iron-rich marine environment, and lends weight to the theory that microbial activity created some of the largest iron ore deposits billions of years ago.
Nothing to freak out about. This is perfectly normal.
Buried deep at some 2.4 kilometers beneath the surface, in the vicinity of an underground mine near Ontario, Canada, scientists have stumbled across what may actually be the oldest water on Earth. Isolated for more than a billion years, the water pocket holds invaluable clues that may hint how ancient life formed, while also shinning hope that […]
Underneath hundreds of meters of Antarctic ice lie a slew of lakes, completely isolated from the outside world, some for thousand of years. For years, scientists have been trying to imagine what life in such a system might look like, if any. Just recently an US Antarctic expedition found a small body of water huddled in […]
In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a type of bacteria that creates electrical currents on the sea floor. Despite the lack of air or sun light, these tiny bacteria flourish and form vast swaths of electrically pulsating multi-cellular organisms. The researchers found that the bacteria breaks down substances in deeper sediments […]
By creating this microbiome catalog, researchers hope to figure out the complex interactions between the countless microbes in our bodies and our immune system. As many already know, germs are not always bad for you – in fact, they are sometimes necessary for a healthy body. But regardless how careless or careful you are with […]
Some species of bacteria can survive virtually anywhere: in acids, in nuclear waste, at extremely low or high temperatures, at extreme pressures, and so on; extreme microbes that survive on gases thrown out by Siberian hot springs may have played an extremely important role in the formation of our planet’s atmosphere and its composition, a […]
The need to find out energy sources and the development of genetic and microbiology make it likely to find out bacteria or microbes which could be very useful. In this case the bacteria should be able to eat sugar or sludge and it must be team player or electrochemically active. Surviving without oxygen would be […]
