In the quiet interior of a soybean root nodule, a bacterium has been quietly assembling a chemical arsenal against one...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about dietary interventions for inflammatory bowel disease, researchers in China have...

In the eucalypt woodlands of Belair National Park in South Australia, wild koalas are quietly carrying a molecular hallmark of...

Deep beneath the recovering forests of subtropical China, a quiet chemical partnership between microbes and iron-rich minerals appears to be...

A team of researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has published a comprehensive review...

For decades, intensive care units have been battlegrounds against some of medicine's most formidable adversaries: bacteria that shrug off nearly...

Every year, billions of plastic fragments drift through the world's lakes, rivers, and oceans, and each one of them carries...

The world's glaciers are often imagined as frozen deserts, lifeless expanses of snow and ice too harsh to sustain anything...

The human gut harbors trillions of bacteria, and for decades, scientists have suspected that this vast microbial ecosystem holds clues...

Metagenomics has transformed the study of microbial communities by allowing scientists to sequence the collective genetic material of entire ecosystems,...