Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

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

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...