New research reveals that while the same yeast dominates sourdough starters, the type of flour used can significantly alter ...

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular ...

Dr. Dianne I Greenfield CUNY Advanced Science Research Center & Queens College Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences (Oceanography) Area of Research: Biological Oceanograp ...

Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to processed food additives, revealing how modern diets can reshape microbial evolution worldwide.

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

A research team shows that environmentally relevant antibiotic levels can greatly accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance genes.A research ...

The success of modern medicine rests on the ability to control infections. But decades of antibiotic overuse—in hospitals, ...

The gut microbiome is complex, and can be affected by the things we eat, our physical habits, our genes, and other factors.

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All ...

Digital evolution experiments show repeated environmental changes can push populations toward different long term outcomes.

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Bacterial patterns invisible to the eye reveal hidden information only with correct biochemical triggers, creating ...