The American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and scientific think tank of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), announced today the release of its landmark report, ...

Resurrecting dinosaurs using DNA retrieved from a mosquito trapped in amber is a great movie plot, though it's less likely to ...

Virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles are underpinned – and often driven – by the activity (or inactivity) of microorganisms. Dormancy, a reversible state of reduced metabolic ...

Deep beneath the ocean, scientists uncovered thriving microbial life in one of Earth’s harshest environments—an area with a pH of 12, where survival seems nearly impossible. Using lipid biomarkers ...

Microorganisms inhabit every known niche on the planet and influence the environment and all other life on Earth. They drive biogeochemical cycles in soils, aquatic systems and the atmosphere, serve ...

Car headlights illuminate the steam plume from Excelsior Geyser at Yellowstone. Image by Neal Herbert, National Park Service, CC3.0. For those who have a connection with the pharmaceutical or ...

Rocky planets that are about earth-size, or maybe two to three times larger, will offer the best chances for simple microbial life, says geodynamicist. Despite endless debate on how and why earth has ...

New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today. In a new publication in the journal Nature Communications, Montana State University ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: the early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience. There were no forests and no animals. For ancient ...