Climate change may open up new habitats suitable for the virus’s spread.

A new study reports finding corn species in Mexico that can trap nitrogen.

Researchers study the mechanistic effects of behavioral changes caused by parasites in fruit flies.

Identifying microbes from Earth that can survive on spacecraft may help scientists eliminate them from future space missions and from searches for extraterrestrial life.

A new study ignites debate on the cause of pistachio bushy top syndrome, a disease that has crippled farms in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Radar data indicate that the Red Planet’s southern polar ice sheets cover a 20-kilometer-wide body of water.

Microbes were living on land as early as 3.22 billion years ago, fossilized rocks show, 500 million years earlier than previously documented.

Under one name the species is used in food fermentation, and under the other it is a drug-resistant cause of yeast infections.

Phages that die during bacterial invasion help other viruses defeat the microbes’ immune responses.