Microbes

Cave microbes on Earth may help guide scientists toward life on Mars.

As climate change melts away frozen landscapes, scientists rush to discover all they can about the tiny organisms that thrive on ice.

Bacteria found around a Brazilian mine could improve copper harvesting.

Global study reveals microbial diversity of sourdough starters.

Researchers and Aboriginal people are working to protect 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils in western Australia.

Artificial "protocells" suggest the complex biochemical mechanisms used by living cells could have originated in simple bubbles.

A new model suggests that many more mammal species than was previously known could host the creation of novel coronaviruses.

Bacterial allies may help insects win the evolutionary arms race against disease-causing microorganisms.

Bacteria engineered to glow green are helping to show how damage from aging is passed down through generations.

Bacteria and yeast can survive under hydrogen in the lab, which may mean more planets could support extraterrestrial life.

The worms absorb and digest symbiotic bacteria through their skin.

Rings of DNA inside bacteria use CRISPR process to attack each other.