By Sean Mowbray Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to ...

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...

Mars looks familiar in telescope images, but its thin air, deep cold and radiation soaked surface would kill an unprotected human in minutes. To turn that hostile landscape into somewhere people can ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s “living skin”—is responsible for processes like water filtration. The newly ...