Bacteriophages, the viruses that prey on bacteria, are the most abundant biological entities on earth, shaping the ...

A chemical radar allows bacteria to sense and eliminate predators. Investigating how microorganisms communicate deepens our ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

An unknown group of microbes is thriving in Earth's deep soil and they’re quietly helping to clean the water that becomes our ...

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...

The study revealed that the number of species in sites affected by human activity is, on average, nearly 20% lower compared ...

Nearly 200 cases of butter have been recalled after some tested positive for a bacteria often associated with faecal ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

Women who followed healthier diets had lower abundance of certain oral microbiome bacteria, including bacteria that can ...

The MicroIker group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored the diversity and distribution of ...

Food irradiation has numerous benefits: Eliminates microbial contamination: Destroys bacteria, moulds and yeast that cause ...