Bioaerosols in poultry houses are composed of a wide variety of microorganisms including bacteria, archaea, virus and fungi.

They race, they leap, they spin, they shoot. Meet the organisms for whom physical prowess is more than sport — it’s a matter ...

The escalating challenges of climate change - including prolonged droughts, soil degradation, and unpredictable growing ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

Oil major BP expects to book $4 billion to $5 billion in fourth-quarter impairments, mainly tied to its low-carbon energy businesses, as it redirects spending to oil and gas to boost returns under new ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three people whose combined discoveries outlined the role of the peripheral immune system—how the immune system knows to attack just foreign ...

Microbes from a remote bay in Western Australia seem to connect to each other with tiny tubes, forming a relationship that may reflect an early step in the evolution of complex life. In Shark Bay, or ...

A first look into the molecular defenses of archaea highlights the importance of surveying diverse microbes to discover new types of antimicrobials As bacteria become increasingly resistant to ...

Following the drive to understand and control bacteria, it’s becoming clear that our methods have changed the very organisms we aim to understand, increasing resistance to tried-and-true antimicrobial ...

Mysterious ancient microorganisms that are neither bacteria nor viruses seem to play a role in colorectal cancer. This supports the idea that such microbes, which were thought to be harmless, could ...