Images from the country’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander show the first sprouting plants.

Menglà virus, detected in bats in China, infects cells through the same host receptor targeted by the deadly pathogens.

Transposon mutagenesis give scientists a rare look at the most important interactions within microbial communities.

In addition to detecting unseen organisms in the ocean, studies of environmental DNA can shed light on the genetic structure of marine populations.

It’s the first time the deadly pathogen has been found in West Africa.

Scientists estimate that subterranean organisms constitute a massive amount of carbon, 245 to 385 times greater than that contained in all humans.

Microbial species living in a fruit fly gut interact with one another—and influence the insect’s health and longevity in the process.

Researchers nab the microbial culprits eating away at a 17th century painting.

The fungi are made to generate electricity with the help of photosynthesizing bacteria looped together on a graphene circuit.