While scientists have studied how bacteria move toward food using a chemical radar known as chemotaxis, they have only ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across ...

Well-known microbes that grow on our crops, our gardens, even our skin have been found thriving at two to three times the ...

The remains of Ötzi the Iceman, who died 5,300 years ago, contain ancient microbes that are still alive, new research finds.

Fog itself is not alive, of course. But new research suggests some fog droplets can briefly become tiny floating habitats, ...

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after ...

Life in the ocean isn’t easy, even for tiny microbes. Normally, ocean microbes spend their life eating whatever nutrients are in the area and reproducing as an important part of the overall ecosystem.

Ocean microbes control Earth's carbon cycle. Scientists found a simpler way to understand how these tiny organisms shape our ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...

The research team found that millions of bacteria floating in tiny fog droplets are alive, growing and breaking down pollutants in the air.

A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered ...