Microbes that hitched a ride into orbit are not just surviving in space, they are changing in ways that give them startling ...

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

Scientists have scoured the depths of the ocean and outer space for microbes to help slow global warming. They’re now looking at a new and unlikely place — inside your home. A group called the Two ...

What if your gut microbes helped power your brain? A new study reveals that the energy-hungry human brain may have evolved with a big assist from our gut bacteria. By transplanting gut microbes from ...

Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to planetary health ...

Trees are known for capturing carbon dioxide as they grow. But they also soak up other gases implicated in climate change through microbes in their bark. The tree bark microbes feast on hydrogen, ...

In the soils of Earth's wetlands, microbes are in a tug-of-war to produce and consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane. But if the Earth gets too hot, it could tip the scale in favor of the methane ...

In 2019, an agency within the US Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to work ...

Christian Krohn's reseach receives funding from an Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre Grant (IC190100033). COVID-19 showed us how useful monitoring wastewater can be ...

Microbes that lurk in decomposing human corpses could help forensic detectives establish a person's time of death, a new study finds. The research, published Feb. 12 in the journal Nature Microbiology ...