Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and ...

Researchers report how Paenibacillus avoids harm by its own antibiotic — information that is crucial for developing new drug ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Listeria is a type of bacteria that can infect foods. Infections can cause fevers, flu-like symptoms, confusion, loss of ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ago.

They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their appetites be harnessed to slow climate change? They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their ...

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...