Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Bacteria navigate tradeoffs between phage resistance and interbacterial competition. This study reveals that while LPS ...

Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting ...

What if life didn’t require oxygen? For centuries, we've operated under the assumption that oxygen is an essential part of ...

The discovery of a previously underestimated capability in archaeal, one of the three primary domains of life, is changing our comprehension of energy generation and the origins of eukaryotic life.