Urban parks and residential green spaces are home to higher, but also much more homogenous soil biodiversity than nearby ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Foraminifera, small but incredibly important marine organisms, spend their lives together with two types of roommates: algae ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This ...

In “The Wonder of Mushrooms,” Spokane author Maya Jewell Zeller begins her opening chapter, “A Kingdom of Fungi”: ...

Almost of half of 41 common drug classes were associated with alterations of the microbiota of the human gut, Dutch researchers reported. Extensive changes in taxonomic structure, metabolic activity, ...

Researchers tested if repeatedly taking small blood samples from oysters harms them. Some oysters died, especially after many ...