Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s disease. Now they just need samples from the people living in the most ...

Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration over unconstitutional ICE conduct. And, SCOTUS hears two cases on whether ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Coral reefs don’t just shape marine life you can see, they also control the daily rhythms of invisible microbes nearby.

A research team systematically compared four commonly used air-sampling technologies to determine which methods most ...

Not all microbes are villains—many are vital to keeping us healthy. Researchers have created a world-first database that ...

Scientists are raising concerns about free-living amoebae, resilient microbes that can survive in water systems and enable the spread of deadly infections.

A group of environmental and public health scientists is sounding the alarm on a largely overlooked but increasingly dangerous group of pathogens: free living amoebae. In a new perspective article ...

Researchers have homed in on a single gut microbe that acts to prevent fat gain, even with a high-fat diet. The discovery adds to the booming science of finding ways to enlist the microbes that ...