Mixing them produces a live culture where yeast and bacteria ferment the sugars in ... community in my family's sourdough starter with the microscope I use in my day-to-day research.

Volvox is a resident of Brooklyn. But it's just one of trillions of microbes in New York City. This is biologist Sally Warring. She heads up the project Pondlife. Which explores microscopic ...

For a long time, microbes like the ones in Yellowstone's hot springs were studied in isolation. Molecular ecologist Devaki ...

The empty spaces looked like plaques created by bacteria-killing viruses, so Hoiczyk’s team concluded there must be a viral invader in their cultures. When the researchers scraped the cleared areas ...