Microorganisms—defined as very small living beings, invisible to the naked eye, comprising bacteria, fungi, viruses or others ...

Researchers led by Professor Erik van Nimwegen at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, have discovered a new mechanism in ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Microorganisms living in the ocean play a key role in maintaining the health of our planet. Take SAR11-Earth's most abundant ...

The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and animals, is shrouded in mystery. Now, strange ...

Scientists have identified a new species of bacteria, Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis, which can conduct electricity. The ...

who published a 2021 review with two colleagues exploring existing literature regarding the consequences of such a large store of microbes being steadily released back into the environment.

Then she drove off to the next of 21 beaches the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality tests every week for ...

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted ...

Bacteria have a simple yet potent mechanism that controls their sensitivity to environmental stimuli. A new study by researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, reveals that the ...