Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

Soils with a variety of microplastics may allow microbes that perform denitrification processes to thrive; this could cause soils to lose nitrogen while the microbes produce nitrous oxide, a ...

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are known as atypical mycobacteria. That means they’re related to tuberculosis, but they don’t cause the same disease. In fact, NTM are generally harmless. That’s a ...

People have a more than tripled risk of pancreatic cancer if their mouths contain 27 types of bacteria and fungi, including ...