In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested that microbes — or ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is among the most damaging pests affecting soybean crops around the world, with current ...

Eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—appeared on Earth 1.7 billion years ago, and now scientists have solved a ...

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...

Researchers have identified bacteria living in human saliva that can break down the two most dangerous peanut allergy ...

Unseen but all around us, the air we breathe in enclosed spaces is crucial to our health and well-being. Indoor air is not simply outdoor air that has been run through a filter: it has its own ...