When snow blankets the landscape, it may seem like life slows down. But beneath the surface, an entire world of activity is ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

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

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 ...

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

A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station, and the changes these 'bugs' experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle ...