Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a rapidly growing concern at the intersection of environmental microbiology and ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

Fungi are different from other organisms. They are made of eukaryotic cells, which are also found in plants and animals, but they are not easily grouped in with either of those things, and they are ...

As the pandemic has progressed, different variants of SARS-CoV-2 have arisen, become dominant, and then been surpassed by a new variant. Then Omicron came along, and this highly infectious variant ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published ...

It's called Metarhizium, and it's a parasitic fungus that lures insects to their death with an odorous compound called ...

The same brain cells linked to disorientation in Alzheimer's disease have been preserved—and even slightly increased—across ...