Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Background The ocean harbors an immense, largely untapped diversity of microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, yeasts, thraustochytrids, and microalgae—whose ...

Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

In all, the megacluster provides a sophisticated siege on an essential pathway in many bacteria, including Streptomyces’ foes ...

Research has revealed how bacteria rely on circadian clocks to control the spread of their multicellular colonies. The ...

The Plasma Care UVC technology developed by South Korean carmakers Hyundai and Kia promieses to kill 99.99 percent of ...

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

If the bioeconomy is to scale, it needs a cheaper, more consistent source of fermentable sugars, says New Zealand startup ...

Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...

Researchers found that highly drug-resistant bacteria from hospitals are also resistant to glyphosate, a commonly used ...

Scientists exploring ancient seafloor rocks in Morocco discovered mysterious wrinkle patterns where they were never expected to occur. These structures are normally linked to microbial mats in shallow ...

In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, the late Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould imagined rewinding life’s history to an early ...