Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Today, Onyeaka is an industrial microbiologist and a deputy director of the ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

Not even the strongest microbes can survive volcanic eruptions, but they are capable of returning surprisingly quickly, according to a new study. Reading time 3 minutes Microbes have a penchant to ...

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

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...