No matter how much they brush their teeth, some people still get more cavities than others, in part because of differences in ...

In the weightlessness of space, bacteria acquired mutations in genes involved in the microbe's stress response and nutrient ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make products that are useful for humans and society. In a new proof-of-concept ...

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

Conventional wisdom has held for some time that children who grow up in environments rich with biodiversity—farms, homes with pets, rural settings in general—are less likely to have allergies. The ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

"It’s like a new world that we didn’t know existed before," one Eastern Connecticut State University researcher said.

The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research ...

"Like any good animal, we sense the change of seasons through a hundred subtle clues. Leaves change and shed, becoming crispy ...

Despite the fact that 68% of the world’s population has trouble digesting lactose, a naturally occurring milk sugar, global ...