In a new study, scientists analyzed ancient microbial DNA from 483 mammoth remains spanning over 1 million years, including 440 newly-sequenced and unpublished...
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock from...
An international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has for the first time been able to get a complete...
A new study published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology sheds more light on unusual ‘curtains’ of biological material...
Microbiologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that different...
Dr Tina Šantl Temkiv and colleagues from Aarhus University, Denmark, have completed the first ever inventory of microbes and soil chemicals in a storm...
Scientists led by Prof Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a 3,000-year-old viable community of bacteria in a dark, salty...
Scientists at the University of Washington suggest that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron...
