Every known living thing on Earth needs water. The life-giving liquid makes up around 60 percent of each human’s body weight, ...

Tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics, are showing up everywhere, even in the water in clouds, rain, and snow—and they ...

Recent research indicates a link between an animal’s gut bacteria and brain function. This may be true in humans, too.

Not even an asteroid blast could kill it.

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...

It is possible that extremophile microbes lcould exist on icy moons and planets with conditions similar to subglacial waters ...

Bacteria that colonize tiny plastic fragments drifting through the atmosphere can significantly enhance those particles’ ...

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

As climate change pushes heat deeper into the ocean, scientists have been concerned about disruptions to marine life’s delicate balance. But new research suggests that a key microbe, Nitrosopumilus ...

Microplastics gather anti-biotic resistant bacteria as they move through water, allowing microbes to spread from polluted sites into rivers.

A recent study suggests that these microbes may also influence an important aspect of fitness – muscle strength. Muscle strength is a crucial feature of health for many reasons. It supports our joints ...