MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life can survive.

Hidden in volcanic lakes and deep-sea vents, scientists have discovered tough new DNA-binding proteins built to survive extreme conditions. After scanning huge genetic databases, researchers found ...

And the deep subsurface is certainly one of these most difficult, and at the same time — just by volume, by space, by extent — one of the most dominant places on Earth." So these bacteria are likely ...

How can bacteria that forage on organic particles survive in vast ocean regions where such particles are extremely sparse? A ...

Promoting pyroptosis—an inflammatory form of programmed cell death—has become a promising treatment strategy for cancer. In research published in The FASEB Journal, investigators purified a long-chain ...

Scientists have discovered an enzyme that allows bacteria to break down and digest plastic, and it is already abundant in our oceans. A new study from researchers at King Abdullah University of ...

A type of bacteria plucked from the bottom of the ocean could be put to work neutralizing large amounts of industrial carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, a group of University of Florida ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Promoting pyroptosis-an inflammatory form of programmed cell death-has become a promising treatment strategy for cancer. In research published in The FASEB Journal, investigators purified a long-chain ...

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...