A new viral science release from researchers in Costa Rica links coffee plantations to a previously underappreciated ecological phenomenon: fungal...

Akkermansia muciniphila, the gut bacterium often linked to metabolic and immune balance, has long intrigued researchers because it thrives on...

The Great Barrier Reef is not only a habitat for corals and fish—it also harbors a vast, invisible microbial community...

Gut microbes are increasingly being viewed as hidden regulators of brain health, and a new study in Translational Psychiatry adds...

Microbial communities rarely behave like chaotic crowds. Instead, new work in Nature Microbiology suggests they may shift in strikingly orderly...

Sea levels rise as Earth warms, and with that comes a less obvious threat to freshwater ecosystems: saltier water. MIT...

Ports are critical nodes in global commerce, but they also act as ecological mixing chambers where shipping activity, wastewater inputs,...

Cambridge researchers report that several widely used low-calorie sweeteners can directly interfere with gut bacteria—an effect that becomes more pronounced...

Extremely preterm infants face a critical window in which early nutrition can shape not only growth, but also the establishment...

Tiny photosynthetic cyanobacteria may survive predator attacks by behaving less like solitary cells and more like organized herds. New research...