Bacteria frozen for thousands of years could hold the key to developing new antibiotics, researchers have found.

Soil microbes remain highly active beneath winter snow, driving complex nitrogen recycling that fuels spring plant growth.

A collection of microbial specimens gathered from a cave located in Romania has displayed a variety of similarities to bacteria that are currently being studied in neurobiology. This research ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. Ice caves are just one of the environments hosting a variety of ...

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

Your gut bacteria are constantly sensing, moving, and sharing nutrients to keep the microbiome thriving.

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an engineering problem with a biological answer. Instead of shipping steel and concrete ...