Liz Pennisi writes about genomics, evolution, microbiology and organismal biology. She has an undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell University and a master's degree in science writing from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

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