A research team from Skoltech, the Institute of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations in Russia and the U.S ...

A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions using an innovative imaging technique. The Extant Life Volumetric ...

An electron microscope image showing clumps of Streptococcus mutans, strains of which are the dominant cavity-causing bacteria in humans. The bacteria form clumps after producing and secreting a ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones. By Carl Zimmer A flurry of new studies ...

A nne Madden is a self-proclaimed “microbe wrangler.” Her inner explorer and scientist emerged during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College, during an internship in Costa Rica. Surrounded by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered microbe ...

Explore a microscopic experiment showing how iodine interacts with bacteria in a fascinating science test. #Microscope #Science #Microbiology ...

On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...

In the words of English poet John Donne, "no man is an island." In the words of Carnegie Science researcher Devaki Bhaya, no microbe is an island, either. The microbes Bhaya studies, in particular, ...