The transformation happens in stages, says Ben Larson, a cell biologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., who discovered the microbes in gunk scraped from an aquarium filter in ...

Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago Nasa’s Perseverance rover has detected complex carbon molecules in Martian rocks that are ...

The term “microbiome” is shorthand for the vast and still largely unexplored worlds of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms that inhabit every corner of the planet. Bacteria form tiny ...

The Oropouche virus has long been overlooked, but following a recent global expansion the virologist Marta Giovanetti argues for a One Health strategy to address this emergent public health threat.