As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Understanding how bacteria form communities on surfaces, including biofilms, has significant implications for both health and ...

Over the past two decades, a troubling pattern has emerged: more young adults are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer - a ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, ...

Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.

Rising temperatures could tip the scale in an underground battle that has raged for millennia. In the soils of Earth's ...

The microbes that were in the deep soil samples were also found ... "I believe this occurred because the deep soil is such a different environment, and this group of organisms has evolved over a long ...

The latest warnings mean seven beaches from Pass Christian to Gulfport now have higher-than-normal bacteria levels, including ...