Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As ...

A mysterious, hard-to-grow gut bacterium keeps showing up in healthy people worldwide—and it may be quietly protecting our microbiomes.

Some make you sick, while others help keep you healthy. But microbes' influence stretches far beyond human bodies. These astonishingly complex organisms regulate the health of forests, oceans and ...

Cornell University soil lab confirms LiveSoil reduces water use by 60%, strengthens root systems, enhances soil biology ...

A new study shows that tiny microbes living in and around oak trees may help them survive drought, poor soil, and disease.

Scientists revived new species frozen for 40,000 years - and the U.S. military believes their survival secrets could protect troops in extreme cold.

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

The circumstances surrounding a study on a deadly virus could hardly have been more dramatic. One of its first authors was forced to flee his homeland when it became a war zone. More than 2,000 ...

They race, they spin, they shoot. Meet the organisms for which physical prowess is more than sport—it’s a matter of life and death ...