Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across ...

Niigata prefecture in Japan is renowned for growing rice, as well as rice-derived products, such as crackers, miso, and sake. Manufacturing these creates a significant amount of unused resources, from ...

The ocean is full of invisible workers. Trillions of microbes quietly break down carbon-containing organic matter, which ...

A new study from Hong Kong reports that some of the microbes found in a range of urban environments are evolving to resist the cleaners we typically use to eliminate them. Just like humans, every city ...

Fog itself is not alive, of course. But new research suggests some fog droplets can briefly become tiny floating habitats, ...

The current climate change crisis is the result of carbon deposits that have taken many millions of years to build up being suddenly released into the atmosphere over the space of a few decades. But ...

There's a lot of buzz about the gut microbiome—the trillions of microbes that help us digest food and support the immune ...

Millions of people worldwide are periodically or chronically affected by gut-related conditions, such as irritable bowel ...