In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

A global atlas mapping two key gut bacteria in infants around the world has uncovered a treasure trove of bacterial strains ...

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...

The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the arrival of all complex life on Earth has had an unsolved mystery at its heart. According to the theory, all plants, animals and fungi, known ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

In A Nutshell Scientists extracted bacteria from Romanian cave ice dated to 5,335 years old that resists 10 modern ...

The Big Issue What does an FDA “Class II” recall really indicate when the product is a pantry good such as peanut butter? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a Class II risk classification ...

Australian food scientists are working to overhaul how dietary fibre is classified beyond soluble and insoluble to better inform nutrition choices and support development of functional foods in a ...

German Leibniz Institute DSMZ makes WHO-listed fungi available to researchers worldwide BRAUNSCHWEIG, LOWER SAXONY ...

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Feb. 22, as w ...

The government is working on a wide-ranging revamp of the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019 (NDI Rules), in a move aimed at reflecting evolving investor profiles, changing ...

Microbes move across the planet, linking ecosystems and spreading genes that shape antibiotic resistance, health, and biodiversity.