In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

In winter sports, lugers slide at more than 90 miles per hour, hockey players send the puck zipping across the ice at 100 mph ...

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

When snow blankets the landscape, it may seem like life slows down. But beneath the surface, an entire world of activity is ...

In the weightlessness of space, bacteria acquired mutations in genes involved in the microbe's stress response and nutrient ...

Among the many trillions of microorganisms in the human gut is Blautia luti. Like many gut bacteria, it metabolizes ...

Mars has long been painted as a dead world of dust and radiation, a place where human visitors would survive only inside ...

Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

Scientists from Yale University have found that early exposure to various microbes and proteins forms a broad immune memory ...

"Like any good animal, we sense the change of seasons through a hundred subtle clues. Leaves change and shed, becoming crispy ...

Researchers found that children’s breath carries chemical clues from gut bacteria, opening the door to faster and gentler ...