Ever been amazed watching athletes keep up an incredible intensity even when it seems like their muscles should have given up ...

Scientists assumed most forms of life before the Great Oxidation Event didn't metabolize oxygen—but recent research suggests ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

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Diverting materials can provide beneficial reuse and bring renewable products into the market. By Debra Darby, CCP, Peter ...

Scientists have decoded the metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria. A new study reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular features.

Immune cells in the skin ‘cauterize’ open wounds and create ‘band-aids’ to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria and foreign molecules from injury sites, finds a study 1 in mice.

Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria to shut down into dormant spores under extreme conditions. The process, which enables the bacteria to become practically indestructible ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens.

It cited the recent gas leak at the ONGC facility as an example. On March 12 ... due to the build-up of micro-organisms and their anaerobic respiration. Following an alert from ONGC Rajahmundry Asset ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

Before this event, Earth's atmosphere was poor in oxygen, and life was primarily anaerobic. The Great Oxidation Event enabled the emergence and diversification of aerobic organisms, which use oxygen ...