Drugs taken years—even decades—ago can leave lasting imprints on the gut microbiome, reshaping the community of microbes long ...

Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are ...

Microbes living with urban trees help them survive heat and pollution. Protecting these tiny organisms can make urban forests ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

Current conditions in Japanese hot springs give clues as to how some of these ancient microorganisms survived and adapted.

Plastics will not only choke coastlines but also incubate antibiotic resistance, disrupt food webs and infiltrate the human ...

Urban trees are essential to the health of cities and their residents: they cool neighborhoods, filter pollution from the air ...

The study, led by scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, revealed that these long-dormant microbes became active ...

In areas that are difficult to access for clean-up operations, nature can lend a helping hand. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Far beneath the icy Alaskan tundra, life lay dormant for tens of thousands of years. In ice-laden soil called permafrost, ...

Researchers have unveiled a surprising new way that soil microbes can use sunlight energy—even after the lights go out. A ...

Not-so-fun fact: our oceans hold 150 times more carbon dioxide than the Earth's atmosphere. Adding to that causes ocean ...