Most microbes either help human health or do not affect people’s health one way or the other. Of the millions of types of microbes in the world, only a few make us sick. Microbes are organisms that ...

Microbes are part of the food we eat and can influence our own microbiome, but we know very little about the microbes in our foods. Now, researchers have developed a database of the 'food microbiome' ...

Earth’s crust teems with subterranean life that we are only now beginning to understand. Credit...Illustration by Brian Rea. Animation By Delcan & Co. Supported by By Ferris Jabr Ferris Jabr is a ...

Certain types of microbes found in the human gut can absorb toxic “forever chemicals” from their surroundings, a study has found. When scientists introduced the microbes into the guts of mice to ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants. Ten years ago, ...