Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's ...

Scientists have recently made groundbreaking discoveries about microbes that can survive in the harsh vacuum of space. This finding challenges our understanding of life’s resilience and opens up new ...

Researchers have homed in on a single gut microbe that acts to prevent fat gain, even with a high-fat diet. The discovery adds to the booming science of finding ways to enlist the microbes that ...

The microorganisms lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 25 July 2019, headed for the International Space Station, some 400 kilometres above. Their mission: to boldly mine basalt, in low Earth ...

Technological advancements in computation and genetics have enabled researchers to sequence the genomes of vast numbers of organisms. With metagenomics techniques, researchers are able to sequence all ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered that disease-causing microbes can travel thousands of miles on high-level winds, posing a new threat to global public health. Researchers have ...

Compared to other large primates, humans have unusually big brains. Now, scientists have suggested that the large size of our brains may have been influenced by the gut microbiome. The microbes in the ...

Researchers have discovered crucial new information about how microbes consume huge amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) and help reduce levels of this deadly gas. Melbourne researchers have discovered ...

Modern societies evolved to be very sanitized, and even the idea of living in unclean environments unsettles most people. This rise of ultraclean societies came with an uptick in allergies, and ...

Living with a dog may shape teens’ behavior by changing the microbiome, with dog-associated bacteria linked to lower ...

Every grower wants bigger buds. Healthy plants. The kind of trichomes that glisten, with terpene and cannabinoid content that deliver the perfect full-spectrum high. That’s the goal, whether your ...