In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

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

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make ...

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

Methane-eating microbes could help convert one of the most powerful greenhouse gases into useful ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

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

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