In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested that microbes — or perhaps the organic building blocks of life — may have hitched a ride while ...

The Carlisle-based Giant Company announced Thursday it will purchase two grocery stores in southwestern Pennsylvania. The grocery store chain reached an agreement with Bob and Joe Appleby to acquire ...

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones. By Carl Zimmer A flurry of new studies ...

Amid rising demand, miners are turning to biotech firms to help them squeeze more metal out of aging mines. In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is ...

Luke Jeffrey receives funding from the Australian Research Council through an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Chris Greening receives funding from the Australian Research Council, National Health & Medical ...

Trees are known for capturing carbon dioxide as they grow. But they also soak up other gases implicated in climate change through microbes in their bark. The tree bark microbes feast on hydrogen, ...

"With further investigation of individual microbes, we will be able to make microbes into medicine and find bacteria that are safe to create a consortium of different bugs that people with different ...

PHILADELPHIA — Deep in the mangrove swamps of the Caribbean lives a giant bacterium with a surprise trick for organizing its DNA. Thiovulum imperiosus wraps its genetic material in membranous fingers, ...

The microbiome—the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body—plays a crucial role in shaping human health by providing a variety of micronutrients necessary for vital ...

Researchers have developed a light-emitting sugar probe that exposes how marine microbes break down complex carbohydrates. The innovative fluorescent tool allows scientists to visualize when and where ...

Scientists collected up to 40,000-year-old microbes from the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in central Alaska and simulated increasingly warmer summers that may penetrate these deep, frozen ...