Deep beneath the Earth's surface, in the pores and crevices of rock, live huge communities of microorganisms. They are invisible to the naked eye—yet they play a central role in the quality of our ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make ...

The 5th grade at Oak Grove Elementary put fungus and bacteria on trial. The mock trial was part of the 5th grade’s study on ...

A surface capable of responding to chemical signals generated by microorganisms and automatically producing biocidal ...

By Sean Mowbray Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, in the pores and crevices of rock, live huge communities of microorganisms. They are invisible to the naked eye – yet they play a central role in the quality of our ...

A responsive silica nanocomposite generates biocidal oxygen species only when microbes alter local chemistry, allowing ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make products that are useful ...

Perfectly adapted microorganisms live in extreme environments from deep-sea trenches to mountaintops. Learning more about how these extremophiles survive in hostile conditions could inform scientists ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams will conduct a spacewalk next week to swab the outside of the International Space Station for microorganisms. Credit: NASA The experiment will focus on collecting samples ...