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 time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel ...
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.
In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...
A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...
Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...
The researchers say the Green Revolution and exclusive selection for aboveground traits in corn — ignoring traits related to the roots and rhizosphere, the microbe-rich zone surrounding roots — ...
"Like any good animal, we sense the change of seasons through a hundred subtle clues. Leaves change and shed, becoming crispy ...
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Microbes in Fukushima found surprisingly unscathed by radiation
In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of ...
The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research ...
Despite the fact that 68% of the world’s population has trouble digesting lactose, a naturally occurring milk sugar, global ...
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