Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

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

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

Microbes might offer a better way to manage wastewater. Today, researchers across industries, from food production to textiles to tech, are turning to microbes and their molecules to churn out ...

Scientists have scoured the depths of the ocean and outer space for microbes to help slow global warming. They’re now looking at a new and unlikely place — inside your home. A group called the Two ...

The current climate change crisis is the result of carbon deposits that have taken many millions of years to build up being suddenly released into the atmosphere over the space of a few decades. But ...

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The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses.

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists ...