Far beneath the icy Alaskan tundra, life lay dormant for tens of thousands of years. In ice-laden soil called permafrost, ...

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A groundbreaking study reveals a surprising link between oral microbes and pancreatic cancer risk. Researchers found certain ...

Researchers have revived an ancient Bulgarian and Turkish method of making yogurt using live red wood ants. These ants ...

In a new study, a team of geologists and biologists led by CU Boulder resurrected ancient microbes that had been trapped in ...

Researchers develop enterololin, a new antibiotic that selectively targets harmful gut bacteria, aided by AI model DiffDock.

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a ...

Emerging evidence suggests the bacteria living in your gut and mouth influence how you sleep at night. Scientists want to use ...

Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

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A hatter and a railway clerk’s 1925 medical breakthrough became one of the most profound events in medical history. Image: ...