Listeria is a type of bacteria that can infect foods. Infections can cause fevers, flu-like symptoms, confusion, loss of ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. PETALUMA, Calif. — The cows had to be deterred from messing with the ...

Scientists have turned to advanced AI to decode the intricate ecosystem of gut bacteria and their chemical signals. Using a Bayesian neural network called VBayesMM, researchers can now identify ...

Why do some chocolate bars exhibit complex flavor notes like floral, caramel, and gentle woody, while others taste harsh, bitter, and astringent? A study published in Nature Microbiology has for the ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...

They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their appetites be harnessed to slow climate change? They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their ...

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...

A person's risk of pancreatic cancer might be tied to the microbes living in their mouths, a new study says. People have a more than tripled risk of pancreatic cancer if their mouths contain 27 types ...