A Saudi nonprofit, Falak for Space Science and Research, is preparing to launch the Kingdom’s first space-based experiment focused on the human eye, in collaboration with SpaceX as part of the FRAM2 ...

Scientists have decoded the metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria. A new study reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular features.

Engineers have derived potent new antibiotics from a frog's secretions. The new molecules demonstrated capabilities on par with existing last-resort antibiotics, without harming human cells or ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

True to its name, this prokaryote-like organism represents the ancestor of every living thing, from the tiniest of bacteria ...

“This was the first time such bacteria were collected in situ in an ... The above are just a few examples of what’s going on with the Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers, and aquifers.

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able ... into many different environments,” said study first author Neila Gross, a doctoral student in materials science ...