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

A toxic red tide (Karenia brevis) bloom can make parts of the Gulf deadly to fish and shorebirds as well as marine mammals and sea turtles.

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

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

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

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a class of fire-resistant industrial chemicals, were widely used in electrical ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

Scientists say they’ve found the cause of a marine epidemic more than 10 years after it started. What took so long?

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

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

The necrobiome is kind of gross and often smelly, but learn more about how this community keeps the wheels of life turning.