The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Supergiant deep-sea isopods endure years without food by pairing an enlarged stomach with cold-adapted metabolic control.

As climate change reshapes the conditions in which pathogens survive and move, antimicrobial resistance is no longer only a ...

Yet most of these microbes have never been named, let alone understood. That gap is now shrinking. The change comes in part ...

By Claire Asher Plastic pollution is among the gravest environmental crises facing humanity. Plastic production since 1950 ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

Scientists have uncovered a possible new route by which “jumping genes” move between species. Credit: Shutterstock. A jumping ...

Research shows that the plastisphere can enrich antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with resistance gene abundances often three times higher than in surrounding waters. At the same time, scientists have ...

Taxidermied, locked behind plexiglass and spinning slowly on a wooden dais in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK, the world’s most famous ewe remains a public spectacle three decades ...

Going without food for even a single day feels difficult for most people, so the idea of surviving five years between meals ...

A method for arrayed CRISPRi screening in organoids enables the investigation of morphogenesis in human stem cell-derived tissues, revealing the roles of ZIC2, SOX11, and ZNF521 in neural tube closure ...

A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem: how to stay alive ...