Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...

For the first time, researchers measured the magnetic pull inside a single bacterium, turning a biological mystery into hard ...

Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species on Earth, despite ...

Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As ...

Researchers analyzed 59 years of data to show that adding bacteria to desert sand can rapidly create new soil.

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

Wastewater contains untapped resources that, if reclaimed, could power agriculture, global sanitation, and its own treatment ...

Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gases, warming the planet far faster than carbon dioxide over the short term. Yet much of the world’s methane escapes into the air from landfills, ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

Hypertension and heart failure affect millions worldwide. Yet in many patients, doctors cannot fully explain why the heart ...