The microbes that people have brought with them and left behind so far to the International Space Station are the focus of a new collaborative rese

Soil scientists Ray Archuleta, right, explained how rolling down a cover crop places a mat of plant material on the soil as a protective cover, thr

A teeming community of soil microbes can defend crops against pests and diseases.

“One challenge is that it needs to be in an environment where the regeneration basin vegetation and microbes can thrive, so, for example, it won’t

The United Nations General Assembly held its first high-level meeting this week on antimicrobial resistance, and growing problem that threatens the

We hear a lot more about our bad bugs than our good bugs — about treatment-resistant gonorrhea and C. difficile and run-amok E.coli.

Victoria Orphan, a geobiologist and explorer of marine life on the sea floor, is one of eight scientists to win a ‘genius grant’ this year from the

Washington: The microbes that people have brought with them so far to the International Space Station -- and left behind -- are the focus of a new

However, microbes depend on a wide array of different reactions for energy; for instance, reactions between oxygen and hydrogen gas help bacteria c

Washington, Sep 22 : NASA is planning to analyse the microbes that people have brought with them – and left behind – on the International Space Sta

The drugs, which previously would have cured people of an infection, are no longer effective in killing the microbes.

Researchers in Japan are hoping microbes from Space could hold the secret to the origins of life on Earth.

Where you live and what you eat can rapidly affect the types of friendly bacteria inhabiting your body.

These are the drugs which destroy harmful microbes.

A mathematician may have discovered a key to understanding the constantly changing distribution of microbial species in the world’s oceans—classify

We know that shoppers are concerned with what’s in their food, but they’re equally conscious of what their food does once it’s in them.

Microbes in an infant’s gut may influence immune cell function and subsequent development of allergy and asthma.

We’ve suggested that it’s the microbes in the dirt that a dog brings into the house, but others remain skeptical, claiming that it could perhaps be

But the other part to this story concerns what we have come to know as the “microbiome” – the billions of beneficial microbes that inhabit our bodi

For decades, researchers have investigated the human microbiome, composed of the bacteria, microbes, genes and genomes that live in and on our bodi

I’d just gotten used to the idea that I’m a walking mountain of microbes.

An EU team examined the ways marine bacteria decompose organic carbon in sediments.

Drought is not an unusual phenomenon.

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