On a sunny morning at the pond at the top of Rockville Hills Regional Park, groups from Suisun Valley K-8 School bustled between science stations to explore their local watershed. They were one ...

The largest organism in the world is a fungus — the so-called “Humongous Fungus” in Malheur National Forest in Oregon, covers about 2,385 acres, is estimated to weigh 35,000 tons and could be about ...

The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research shows that while the same hardy yeast tends to dominate sourdough starters ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

Opening Bid Unfiltered is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you aren’t ...

The natural world teems with microorganisms. Billions of species of bacteria, archaea, viruses and fungi make up complex ecosystems in the soil, water and air. The activity of these microbes sustains ...

Among municipalities, Choutuppal in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district recorded the highest turnout at 91.91%, while Nandikonda in Nalgonda district reported the lowest at 59.68%.

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...