In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

Chinese scientists report that they’ve found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space ... 26 of those microbes were completely unknown to science. With more than two dozen rovers and landers ...

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The researchers published their findings March 3 in the journal International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology ... unknown strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria hiding ...

A new study on the bacteria, published in a leading microbiology journal, found the new species can break down gelatin as a source of nitrogen and carbon. This rare ability allows it to build a ...

Swabs from China's Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it function under stressful environmental conditions hundreds of kilometers ...

The clean rooms used to prep NASA's Phoenix Mars lander for launch were not as clean as we thought. Life, as they say, finds a way — even in the most sterile places on Earth. Scientists from ...

the first of its kind found in China’s orbital lab. The strain, named Niallia tiangongensis, is a new variant of a known Earth bacteria and was discovered on a cabin inside the space station.