The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

New research from the University of Queensland provides insights into the gut microbiomes of 23 marsupial species, 13 of which for the first time. Genetic analysis reveals new microbial species, ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

From insignificant individual cells to a rich community full of cooperation. That is how our understanding of the world of ...

Coral reefs appear to run a daily timetable for microscopic life in nearby waters. Scientists found that microbial ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

University of Wisconsin-Madison team found that microgravity alters the "evolutionary arms race" between bacteria and the ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...