New research suggests bacteria inside marine fish guts may help produce calcium carbonate, a mineral important to ocean ...

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern.

A large study finds you may share about a quarter of your oral and gut microbes with the people you live with. Should you ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have helped uncover a hidden ally in the fight against one of agriculture's greatest threats—salty soil. Led by Chinese collaborator Dr. Yanfen Zheng, the ...

A new study finds that people who live together share far more mouth and gut microbes than those living apart.

In a new study scientists reveal up to 38-fold higher DMSP concentrations in Southern Ocean sea-ice versus the surrounding ...

Probiotic supplements found in drugstores nationwide contain an assortment of microbes sold for specific health purposes despite limited understanding of the microbes' connections to their marketed ...

Researchers have created a model that follows food beyond traditional calorie calculations, incorporating the role of gut ...

In 1991, Ötzi was discovered in the Ötztal Alps that straddle the current borders between Italy and Austria. He’s the oldest known glacial mummy ever found and is believed to have died at the age of ...

Summary: Researchers mapped the precise environmental and physical dynamics governing human microbiome transmission, proving ...

Bengaluru: What began as a curiosity-driven experiment by two city scientists to grow colour-producing microbes on fabric has ...