Plants and microbes are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Now, researchers report iron oxides can drive the same conversion at comparable ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions.

Turns out, the bacteria in your gut have food preferences of their own. Here’s how a colorful plate feeds the bacteria that ...

Researchers achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to the alcohols they produce during fermentation of plant biomass.

New research reveals that hydrothermal vents provided early Earth with abundant nitrogen, challenging previous theories.

Hungarian researchers have discovered unique bacterial communities in thermal waters that may help unravel the development of ...

Solar Foods is evaluating multiple locations for its commercial-scale factory, prioritizing sites with access to the ...

One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it. Now ...

Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools --tools that scientists could also use to look for ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce ...

We can’t see them, but there are more microbes — tiny fungi, bacteria, worms and other living things — in a teaspoon of soil ...

Vaginal microbes play a huge role in overall health, but researchers know relatively little about them. Citizen science could help change that.