Agric. Sci., Vol. 17, pp. 109–117) showed that under certain conditions the motile butyric acid bacillus is capable of producing ærobic micrococci. Studies of this organism continued during the ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Researchers have long investigated what type of life exists beyond Earth and how we can find it. A new method focuses on looking for one of the most basic signs of living microbes – movement.

Bacillus subtilis, a bacterium that naturally inhabits soils and the human gut ... "It could be a simple way to look for life ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...