Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cryptobiotic soil crust in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, requires microorganisms living in these crusts to help hold the soil ...

Microbes move across the planet, linking ecosystems and spreading genes that shape antibiotic resistance, health, and biodiversity.

The microbiome shapes development of insulin-producing cells in infancy, leading to long-term changes in metabolism and diabetes risk, new research in mice has found. The results could ultimately help ...

Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gases, warming the planet far faster than carbon dioxide over the short term. Yet much of the world’s methane escapes into the air from landfills, ...

Scientists found a soil microbe that both releases and absorbs electricity, pointing to new renewable energy technologies.

In A Nutshell Researchers in Japan identified two common gut bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila and Bacteroides ...

Farmers now have more reasons to consider rotating their crops, University of Alberta research shows. Widely used to restore ...

Christian Krohn's reseach receives funding from an Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre Grant (IC190100033). COVID-19 showed us how useful monitoring wastewater can be ...