Faint ridges in Moroccan rock have revealed an ancient mystery: signs of microbial life deep below the sea surface, where ...

Experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that bacteriophages can still infect Escherichia coli under ...

The study of early Earth microbial life and its associated organic matter provides crucial insights into the origins and evolution of life on our planet. Recent work has illuminated the remarkable ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

A new peer-reviewed study led by Israeli researchers has found that coral reefs help control the daily lives of microbes, tiny bacteria, and microscopic algae that live in the water around them. The ...