25+ min ago   (707+ words) Detecting dangerous bacteria in a patient’s sample can take hours or even days, and the fastest molecular tests demand expensive laboratory infrastructure and highly trained staff....

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (599+ words) Plant roots are far more than simple anchors. They are living interfaces, constantly negotiating with an invisible world of bacteria and fungi that surround them in the soil....

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (271+ words) Do not mistake glaciers for mere frozen lakes. They are time capsules holding Earth’s history. Snow that fell thousands of years ago compacts into ice; in doing so, it traps whatever was suspended in the atmosphere at the time: dust,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (279+ words) The article begins this way: New genetics research—entirely based on evolutionary assumptions and interpretations of genomes—now places LUCA “astonishingly early” in earth’s history. That’s surprising in the evolutionary view, given how complex life is and how uninhabitable early…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (610+ words) Important information for Fall 2026 applicants September 9, 2026 | by University Marketing and Communications Research underway in the lab of Rebecca Alexander, professor in Wake Forest University’s Department of Chemistry, is shedding light on a peculiar human bacteria, Mycoplasma penetrans. Alexander’s work to…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (433+ words) We cannot live without soil. It provides us with building materials, most of our antibiotics and 95 per cent of our food. The adorable velvet worm in the main image was found under a log in a misty beech forest on…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (460+ words) A book nearly 10 years in the making is lifting the veil on a “mostly invisible but vital” part of Kings Park’s biodiversity. Mycologists Roz Hart and Sapphire McMullan-Fisher have released Fungi For Land: A Practical Guide For Land Managers, which…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (911+ words) We’ve been searching for life on Mars for a long time now, but so far we’ve come up empty. The fundamental problem is a Catch-22 of two of the key ingredients for life. Life as we know it needs liquid…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (21+ words) Biologists have uncovered a unique ensemble of Arthrobacter in Antarctic soil that are unlike microbes found anywhere else on the planet....

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (662+ words) People often point to Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault as a safeguard for future crops. Yet researchers say the planet already contains a much bigger cache of seeds, spread through soils around the world. That underground storehouse could prove critical…...