There are several well-documented health risks that come from spending extended periods in microgravity, including muscle atrophy, bone density loss, and changes to organ function and health.

Cement manufacturing and repair could be significantly improved by using biocement-producing bacteria, but growing the microbes at construction sites remains a challenge. Now, researchers report a ...

A new study from the University of California suggests that the International Space Station (ISS) may be too clean, ...

There’s no doubt that gut health is important. Having a diverse range of bugs, or microbes, living in our small and large ...

We all know the damage UPFs cause to our gut but what about alcohol? Experts explain the ways it can affect digestion ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

Astronauts swabbed more than 800 spots on the International Space Station; their samples contained just 6% of the spectrum of ...

Plants and microbes are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Now, researchers report iron oxides can drive the same conversion at comparable ...

Turns out, the bacteria in your gut have food preferences of their own. Here’s how a colorful plate feeds the bacteria that ...

Researchers achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to the alcohols they produce during fermentation of plant biomass.

One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it.Now ...