Somewhere beneath the frozen soils of the Arctic, life has been waiting patiently for millennia. Long before the rise of ...

Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

The microbe Haloarcula marismortui swims by growing a unique, reinforced outer sheath around its tail, providing essential ...

Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

From Antarctic deserts to the human gut, scientists are uncovering hidden microbial worlds that could reshape medicine, ...

Cravings for a late-night snake could impact the gut microbiome in adults with prediabetes. The gut microbiome is the ...

The discovery of an entirely closed cave took place in 1986 during the exploration of land around the coastline of the Black Sea when workers sought a site for building a new power station. Instead of ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They ...

Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Primitive single-celled organisms known as archaea have a survival mechanism that may be a legacy of the world’s earliest life-form. The last ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three people whose combined discoveries outlined the role of the peripheral immune system—how the immune system knows to attack just foreign ...