Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Heat-resilient biofertilizers could help crops cope with rising temperatures but engineering them has been slow and uncertain ...

Scientists at Tufts have found a way to turn common glucose into a rare sugar that tastes almost exactly like table sugar—but ...

Spacecraft are assembled in specialized “cleanrooms” that are designed to avoid contamination from dust and microorganisms.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Recent research uncovers a direct gut-brain communication system, revealing how certain gut microbes send real-time signals ...

Somehow, 26 new species of bacteria have managed to survive in the harshest place on Earth -- a NASA cleanroom.

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

Rather than yeast or microalgae, the company is working with oleaginous bacteria—which it claims are more productive.

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...