A bioactive compound produced by the microorganism Bacillus licheniformis, found on Deception Island in Antarctica, has ...

Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are ...

Biomason plans to scale up its unique ‘biocement’ production process, taking aim at one of the world’s most polluting—and most widely used—products. While working at a design studio in New York City ...

“Microbes are the world’s oldest miners,” says Liz Dennett, founder and CEO of the start-up Endolith Mining, based near ...

Disease caused by pathogenic microorganisms has been a major killer throughout history. Our species continued survival has been a source of fascination for people all the way back to prehistory. Over ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...

Groundwater commonly contains methane, but the amount of this important greenhouse gas that can escape to surface waters or ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a sponge captures decoy molecules.