A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized. The bacteria, known as SAR11, ...

Of the symbiotic relationships, mutualism, where both species benefit from the relationship, is the most exciting form. How two disparate species can form a cooperative where both benefit seems like ...

Dolichospermum, a type of cyanobacteria thriving in Lake Erie’s warming waters, has been identified as the surprising culprit behind the lake’s dangerous saxitoxins—some of the most potent natural ...

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Scientists collected up to 40,000-year-old microbes from the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in central Alaska and simulated increasingly warmer summers that may penetrate these deep, frozen ...

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Cities don’t just sprawl—they metabolize. A new study shows that population, infrastructure, and emissions grow in lock-step, overturning the popular idea that bigger automatically means greener. The ...

Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology. In the ever-expanding universe of microscopic life, scientists have uncovered ...

A team of researchers in Germany have revived algae cells found buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where they’d lain dormant for more than 7,000 years. For millennia, the cells, imprisoned under ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its cells, according to new research. Cells have been shown to continue to function even after the organism they originated from is deceased, often ...