In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...

History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists revealed that a precious bacterium, named B.infantis, has been declining in the last few years. The bacteria, found ...

The founders of the Microbiota Vault, a project that aims to preserve microbial diversity, have announced that they are ready to grow their frozen microbe collection to 10,000 samples by 2029. When ...

Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park is dealing with an overload of human poop in wilderness areas, and park officials are considering installing a permanent toilet in at least one backcountry area to ...