Memory is foundational to our human experience. By tracking and storing our experiences, it helps us navigate the world and ...

When drinking water is stored in containers, a thin layer of microorganisms can grow at the interface of the container and ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Today, Onyeaka is an industrial microbiologist and a deputy director of the ...

Information processing using living organisms is an important area of biotechnology that has already been explored in ...

In a new study, researchers have determined through both statistical analysis and in experiments that soil pH is a driver of microbial community composition -- but that the need to address toxicity ...

Found in volcanic soil in Albay, the newly classified organism belongs to a bacterial group responsible for producing many of today’s antibiotics, underscoring the Philippines’ potential role in the ...

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 ...