Found everywhere from the human mouth to the surface of the skin, microorganisms known as Archaea — meaning "ancient things" — were only distinguished ...

Certain microorganisms (anaerobic methanotrophic archaea, or ANME) consume methane and convert it into electricity, as ...

Mars is cold, dry, and almost airless. But in a laboratory on Earth, scientists recreated some of its harshest conditions and ...

Biomining is often summed up as microbes eating metal, but that picture is mostly wrong. Scientific reviews describe the bulk ...

The previous installment of The Mitochondria Compendium received a great response.The three parts covered so far have dealt ...

The group studies the diversity and function of soil microorganisms – fungi, bacteria and archaea – and how climate change, ...

Many viruses have a remarkably simple design: a protein shell containing their genetic material. Bacteria build almost the same shell and use it as a sealed container for chemical reactions, with ...

Wicomico County has finalized agreements for a project that will convert methane from the Newland Park Landfill into ...

Enceladus’s ocean is extremely alkaline and low on carbon dioxide, but one terrestrial extremophile made it work.

After three years of coaxing microbes from a gas well east of Tokyo, Japanese scientists have grown the first ...

Tiny conductive particles in coastal sediments can help methane-producing microorganisms exchange electrons in a laboratory ...

Scientists filmed ancient relatives of complex cells crawling across surfaces, revealing how movement may have evolved ...