Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life can survive.

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

Due to the extremely cold climate, Lake Unter-See remains covered in ice year-round.

An Argentina lagoon turned a bright pink color caused by sodium sulfite, an anti-bacterial product used in fish factories - Copyright AFP Timur Matahari An Argentina ...

NASA says a rock sample collected by its Perseverance Mars rover in the Jezero Crater may contain evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. The rover discovered a rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in ...

Walking my dog on coastal beaches will never be the same since I learned about their precarious ecosystems. Beneath their sands lies a hidden world of microbial life that is critical in protecting the ...

A consortium of researchers from four European countries is developing a way to tattoo microbial life on the exterior of buildings. These "living tattoos" will be able to suck carbon out of the air, ...

The Microbial Conservation Specialist Group convenes a global coalition of microbiologists, ecologists, traditional knowledge experts and conservation leaders to develop and advocate for conservation ...

What can volcanic sulfur on ancient Mars teach scientists about whether microbial life might have existed? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of ...

Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

In a new study published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment on Nov. 5, Prof. Zeng Fanjiang's team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...