They are the oldest forms of life, and by sheer quantity, they dominate the planet. But how bacteria and archaea interact with each other and their environment is essentially unknown. "It's really ...

Recent research has expanded on the idea that the trees around us are far more complex than they appear. Hidden beneath bark and throughout the roots are vast communities of microbes, trillions of ...

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There's a new branch on the tree of life and it's made up of predators that nibble their prey to death. These microbial predators fall into two groups, one of which researchers have dubbed 'nibblerids ...

A nne Madden is a self-proclaimed “microbe wrangler.” Her inner explorer and scientist emerged during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College, during an internship in Costa Rica. Surrounded by ...

Using five distinct tea cultivars, researchers combined metabolomic profiling, metagenomics, and machine learning to identify eight key microbial genes associated with leaf secondary compounds, ...

Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial metagenome-only operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) originating from various genome categories. The gray circle represents 127,766 ...

There is so much we don't know about microbes, even while these organisms are the most numerous on the planet. A recent study called our understanding of microbial life 'profoundly ignorant,' and ...

The first study to ever explore biological activity in the deepest layer of ocean crust has found bacteria with a remarkable range of capabilities, including eating hydrocarbons and natural gas, and ...

Microbial communities, though invisible to the naked eye, are vitally important to planetary health and to Earth’s ecosystems. But they are often neglected in conservation strategies. Like other ...