Profitable, Practical, Improved Yields: Feed Microbes to Improve Plant Health With rising input costs and price uncertainties, it’s important now, more than ever, to implement practices that are ...

Microbial alchemy "Microbes are nature's alchemists," says Braden Tierney, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School. "They are capable of taking just about any compound or chemical anywhere in ...

The world is full of microbes, and many of them like the taste of waste. Some carbon monoxide-loving microbes can be harnessed to transform waste into valuable biofuel.

A group of bacteria has proved adept at destroying the ultratough carbon-fluorine bonds that give “forever chemicals” their name. This finding boosts hopes that microbes might someday help ...

The microbes highlighted in the new study break down carbon-fluorine bonds in some unsaturated PFAS. This process, known as defluorination, is driven by enzymes that split the chemical bonds, thus ...

Microorganisms have been found living in tiny cracks within a 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa, making this the oldest known rock to host life. The discovery could offer new insights into ...

What is methane and why is it important to understand its sources? Methane is the second-most important long-lived greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and its impact on the climate is second only to ...

Microbes are hungry, all the time. They live everywhere, in enormous numbers. We might not see them with the naked eye, but they are in soils, lakes, oceans, hydrothermal vents, our homes, and ...