More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory conditions. A critical factor, however, is whether the active substances actually ...

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It started with a scoop of soil from an Arctic dump. Inside was a microbe scientists call a game-changer - able to live on air and pull methane, one of the planet’s most dangerous greenhouse gases, ...

Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food source for many sea creatures and produce almost half the oxygen we breathe.

The vast community of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract–the gut microbiome, has many close links to human health and well-being. The gut microbiome can vary significantly from one person to ...

A research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson is developing a drug that works in combination with copper to kill bacteria, including those that cause MRSA, a type of staph ...

COIMBATORE: A team of archaeologists has discovered a land measuring rod dating back to the Kongu Chola period at the Kariyapiran Kovil in Tirupur district. According to archaeologists, the14-foot ...

Dr. Herdís Steinsdóttir deploying an instrument near the reef in Eilat to record water currents, allowing her to keep track of the direction of sea currents. A new study shows that coral reefs don’t ...

There is a large body of evidence suggesting that owning dogs is good for your physical and mental health. Living with a dog can actually help your children by reducing their susceptibility to ...

The research, conducted by a team from the University of California, Berkeley, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on how this methane-producing archaea ...