The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

We already knew forests were heavy lifters in reducing climate pollution. New research reveals the tiny microbes in tree bark ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

Tough microbes able to survive extreme environments on Earth could be the key to constructing buildings to allow humans to ...

Plants make substances called alkaloids to protect themselves, and humans have long taken advantage of these chemicals, using ...

Gut microbiome researcher Purna C. Kashyap, MBBS, shares the latest insights on the role of probiotics, disorders of the ...

Many of the microbes living in bark can live off various gases. This is a process recently coined as “aerotrophy”, as in “air ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

Researchers discover a unique genetic code in Antarctic archaea that encodes a rare amino acid, potentially advancing protein ...

New research explores how microbes could turn Martian soil into building material and support life systems, offering a potential path for constructing human habitats on Mars using local resources ...