University of Wisconsin-Madison team found that microgravity alters the "evolutionary arms race" between bacteria and the ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa ...

Doesn’t it feel otherworldly out here?” says Colleen Durkin from the lower deck of the Rachel Carson as it glides out from ...

While people swear by their favorite home remedies, most—including the three described above—remain unproved. Every now and then, however, a piece of folklore is scientifically validated. Sometimes ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...