Western Sydney University researchers have discovered that drought affected wheat plants are able to call on eco-friendly ...

At least 80 people have died in the U.S during the past few days of extreme heat; in British Columbia, the number is in the hundreds. And, as more data trickles in, those numbers are likely to ...

Western Sydney University researchers have discovered that drought-affected wheat plants are able to call on eco-friendly ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...

Comprehensive studies of deep subsurface microbiology have revealed not only cell abundances that match previous estimates in surface environments ... of microbes in energy-limited settings, ...

Scientists have discovered yet another never-before-seen strand of bacteria growing on a space station. This time it was ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still can’t rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could ...

When your immune system detects harmful microbes, your body raises its internal temperature to create a hostile environment. Turning up the heat suppresses the proliferation of invaders. In short, the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly rich microbial diversity thriving in some of the harshest soils on Earth — those of ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to identify genetic changes that help tiny oxygen-producing microbes survive in extreme ...