Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

Finding resources far from Earth is a well-known spaceflight limitation, but metal-harvesting microbes provide a way to tap outer space’s mineral wealth.

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

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

Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As ...

They race, they spin, they shoot. Meet the organisms for which physical prowess is more than sport—it’s a matter of life and death ...

If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...

"Barking" up the right tree! Here's how an Australian team found that microbes found in tree bark may have a bigger influence ...

A global atlas mapping two key gut bacteria in infants around the world has uncovered a treasure trove of bacterial strains ...

Scientists have identified a “missing microbe” that is often absent in babies from western countries and raises the prospect ...