A new type of microorganism has been discovered that may prove crucial in the process of water purification on Earth. These microorganisms are hidden within the Earth's critical life zone and can ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Michigan State University scientists have uncovered a new microbe phylum which helps purify groundwater in Earth's deep ...

the functional overlap between bacteria and fungi ensures ecosystem resilience, allowing essential processes like nutrient cycling to persist even in highly disturbed urban soils. Soil microbes ...

The Earth beneath our feet teems with life invisible to the naked eye, and the discovery of an unfamiliar type ... of microbes — called CSP1-3 — in a part of Earth referred to as the critical zone.