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 ...

This year the school offered half-hour sessions several days a week to focus on science, math and reading skill-building. Science teacher Mike Weisenberger called it “inquiry-based learning,” as his ...

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 ...

Giger patiently waited, and then he saw what he was looking for under the microscope: The bacteria had wiggled their way into the fungal spores to hitchhike to the next generation. “I had to ...

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