When 115,000 tons of food waste hit Surrey's processing facility each year, an invisible army goes to work—billions of ...

A young boy in Nebraska may well have been saved thanks to a particular piece of rotten eggplant collected in South Africa.

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

A newly understood bacterium discovered in NASA’s clean rooms is raising the possibility that microbes from Earth have ...

A new study has uncovered a shocking link between a common stomach bacteria and millions of potential cancer cases.

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s “living skin”—is responsible for processes like water filtration. The newly ...

The bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an unwelcome visitor in the human body. Serious infections can result when a ...

When 115,000 tonnes of food waste hit Surrey's processing facility each year, an invisible army goes to work—billions of microbes convert everything ...