When 115,000 tons of food waste hit Surrey's processing facility each year, an invisible army goes to work—billions of microbes convert everything from banana peels to leftover pizza into renewable ...

QUT researchers have recovered the genomes of more than 24,000 previously unknown microbial species—some from entirely new branches of life that likely evolved before plants and animals. The microbes ...

Two new studies show how difficult it is to keep microbes from traveling into Earth orbit and beyond. Chinese scientists report that they've found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space station, but ...

Microbes living in our guts help us digest food by reshaping the bile acids that our livers produce for breaking down fats. It turns out that two of these microbially-modified bile acids may affect ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Your bathroom is teaming with biodiversity. Microbiologists have ...

Bacteria seem to thrive anywhere—even in places where they are least wanted. In the past week, we've have gotten a pretty stark reminder that these microbes can survive and thrive in the most unlikely ...