Researchers warn that accelerating human-driven loss of microbial diversity threatens both planetary and human health. The ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on ...

The deep-sea environment comprises a wealth of distinct ecosystems, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and subsurface habitats. A multitude of bacteria and archaea live in these distant niches ...

Microbial activity in flowback and produced water (FPW) may negatively influence shale oil and gas extraction. However, the impacts of using recycled produced water (RPW) for subsequent fracturing ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

In a nutshell Scientists engineered a self-sustaining system using cyanobacteria and fungi that can grow on Martian soil ...

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that certain deep-sea spiders are not predators or scavengers as once ...

How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

During the 2012 DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition to the deepest part of the ocean, scientists spotted fuzzy mats that may be communities of bacteria clinging to the rocks.