Are the building blocks of life at the bottom of the sea?
Scientists recreated a deep-ocean environment where underwater volcanoes spew heat and chemicals to test whether or not biological molecules…
Author: Osama Alian
Hunting for fossilized microbes
We’ve all heard of hunting for fossils to learn about the Earth’s past, but what if you wanted to learn about the microbes that lived…
Friends to Foes: When a Symbiont Becomes a Parasite
We’ve all heard that rising global temperatures are bad for the environment. Typically, this is framed in terms of rising sea levels and…
Bacteria in your gut produce a chemical that increases fat storage
Since the invention of the microscope and discovery of microbes, their role in everyday life has been, to say the least, contentious. As…