The research, published in the journal Microbiology, offers insight into the conditions that lead to biological degradation of industrial equipment, and hope for a potential means of breaking down ...

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Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

Researchers achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to the alcohols they produce during fermentation of plant biomass.