Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we ...

The clues were investigated based on the Great Oxidation Event that occurred 2.4 billion years ago, which gave birth to new life forms.

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

Early microbial exposures from maternal microbes, milk components, and the environment shape infant gut development and ...

According to a new study by Yale researchers published in Nature, trees host diverse and unique microbial communities, ...

Unlocking the basic science of microbes, especially those that live in extreme environments, could help us find life elsewhere in the universe.

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

It may be small, its habitat harsh, but a newly discovered single-celled microbe leads the hottest existence known to science. Its discoverers have preliminarily named the roughly micron-wide speck ...