Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange ...

For a long time, microbes like the ones in Yellowstone's hot springs were studied in isolation. Molecular ecologist Devaki Bhaya says we should be studying them in community. Here's why.Help shape ...

Microbiologists have long known that bacteria come in a diversity of shapes and shades, and scientist-artists have been harnessing colorful bacteria to create works of art since at least the 1920s.

Some bacteria can even reflect light and give off the appearance of color without using pigments the way that most colorful objects in nature do.

Imagine a creature about 1 million times smaller than you are, a creature so small that 1,000 of them could fit snugly on the head of a pin.

Fieldstone’s technology emerged from that question. The startup was founded in 2023 after spinning out of MIT, where professor Chris Voigt’s lab had developed a way to turn microbes into sensors.

Can Bacteria Serve as ... An Endolith technician swirls a flask containing a starter culture of the company’s proprietary microbes. The amber color comes from trace metals and ...

A UK start-up is producing dyes made by bacteria and yeast rather than fossil fuel-derived chemicals, which could help clothes manufacturers cut energy use and pollution ...