On Thursday January 30th, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are doing a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International ...

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After so many years of learning how microbes work, researchers are now digitally recreating their inner workings to tackle challenges ranging from climate change to space colonization. In my work as a ...

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What are “mirror bacteria”? To understand mirror bacteria, we first need to take a look at one of the key properties of the molecules of life as we know them; they have homochirality, or ...

A new study reveals that close social contacts, such as friends, influence the composition of the microbiota — the community ...

Astronauts are set to swab the space station's exterior, searching for living microbes to better understand how they survive ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

Blaise Manga Enuh, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) After so many years learning how microbes work, researchers are now digitally recreating their inner workings to tackle ...

Microbiology is a biological science focused on the study of microorganisms. These are organisms that cannot be seen by the naked eye, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and single-celled algae and ...