Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...

The current study, led by researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK, suggests that by promoting certain bacteria in ...

At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

Researchers have discovered crucial new information about how microbes consume huge amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) and help reduce levels of this deadly gas.

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

An analysis of the gut microbiome in women from four African countries provides crucial data for this under-represented ...

A University at Buffalo study reveals that a strain isolated from contaminated soil can break down the strong carbon-fluorine ...

In the quest to take the "forever" out of "forever chemicals," bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a ...

A boil order remains in effect in Oklaunion after a line break on Tuesday, January 28. Jan King with the Oklaunion Water ...

By Carolyn Beans for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for ...