A study shows that social interactions in the nursery have a huge impact on babies’ microbiome development and may facilitate ...

In turbulent times, it helps to hear stories of resilience. What can we learn from 3.5 billion-year-old bacteria that eat light?

A team of researchers at UCLA has reported an unexpected twist in a condition long treated as a crystal chemistry problem. In samples of the most common kidney stone, they found bacteria living inside ...

Antibiotic resistance is often framed as a hospital problem, but a growing body of evidence shows that rivers, soils, ...

Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical discovered in Martian soil during various space ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first astronaut to fly to the International Space Station (ISS), has added another ...

A toxic chemical long considered hostile to life on Mars, may not be an obstacle to building on the Red Planet after all. Instead, it could.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have investigated how bacteria that can mould Martian soil into brick-like structures fare in the presence of perchlorate, a toxic ...

Bacteria can be turned into living factories that churn out complex molecules using reactions catalysed by light 1.

If we step outside on a misty morning, we can watch nature perform one of its miracles. Tiny droplets of dew begin forming on leaves, grass, and window panes as the cool air settles. Water simply ...

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

Khaberni - A research team led by the University of California has discovered a potential role for bacteria in the formation ...