How much carbon can the ocean absorb, and what happens to it as the planet warms? Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer and professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is trying to answer these ...

The finding is the first documented case of colonial behavior between two solitary species ...

Halloween is over, and that means one thing: it’s time to start shopping for the holidays! Here’s the perfect item for the infectious disease specialist on your list: stuffed plush microbes. These ...

That ’70s Show alum Danny Masterson is wallowing in despair behind bars as the convicted rapist’s ex-wife, Bijou Phillips, ...

Microorganisms are everywhere in our world, and they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. But it's been generally thought that bacterial cells are too small to see. In recent years, however, ...

Scientists have unearthed giant magnetofossils — large magnetic crystals left behind by microorganisms — buried in 50,000-year-old sediment in the Bay of Bengal 1. They are the youngest giant ...

The world’s biggest miner is trying to figure out if tiny rock-eating microbes can help it solve a notoriously difficult climate puzzle — how to cut emissions from steelmaking. Most steel today is ...

Microbes that have been suspended in permafrost for up to 40,000 years could "reawaken" and start churning out greenhouse gases if Arctic summers grow much longer, new research suggests. Under future ...

ANOKA, Minn. — On a chilly April morning, Travis Gienger took his first gamble of the 2025 season. The world-champion ...