Architects and microbiologists are exploring whether making buildings hospitable to friendly microorganisms can improve human health.

Experts recommend eating foods high in probiotics before taking a supplement for weight loss, but supplements can help fill ...

Scientists found iron-fueled microbial life thriving deep beneath the Red Sea at Hatiba Mons, revealing a vast, metal-driven ...

Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2025) hopes to address as ...

Researchers discovered that soil microbes in Kansas carry drought “memories” that affect how plants grow and survive. Native plants showed stronger responses to these microbial legacies than crops ...

Like wine and cheese, chocolate has terroir, a sense of the place it was grown. Each bonbon or bar may carry unique flavors shaped by the soil, rainfall and temperature of the farm. But much of that ...

Every grower wants bigger buds. Healthy plants. The kind of trichomes that glisten, with terpene and cannabinoid content that deliver the perfect full-spectrum high. That’s the goal, whether your ...

If there is life on Mars (or if there was long ago) it may not lie buried in the planet’s rocky crust. Instead, it might be ...

In a new study, a team of geologists and biologists led by CU Boulder resurrected ancient microbes that had been trapped in ice—in some cases for around 40,000 years. The study is a showcase of the ...

Researchers drilled core samples of permafrost from inside the US Army Corps of Engineers tunnel in Alaska. At the US Army Corps of Engineers’ research facility in central Alaska, a unique tunnel ...