Australian researchers have discovered a hidden climate superpower of trees. Their bark harbors trillions of microbes that ...

Global change—a term that encompasses climate change and phenomena such as changes in land use or environmental pollution—is ...

MELBOURNE, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in Australia have discovered that tree bark hosts trillions of microbes that help remove greenhouse and toxic gases from the atmosphere. This reveals a hidden ...

The human gut microbiome is complex and diverse, with significant implications for health and disease. The study develops smRandom-seq2, a droplet-based method that overcomes the limitations of ...

Warming temperatures may cause methane emissions from wetlands to rise — by helping methane-producing bacteria thrive. Higher temperatures favor the activity of wetland soil microbes that produce the ...

An important study in Nature Microbiology challenges the entrenched assumptionthat synthetic chemicals can be targeted for ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

The human brain is a greedy organ. It gulps energy, demands constant upkeep, and somehow grew far larger (relative to body ...

Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...