Funnel-web spiders change the timing of their distinct courtship behavior depending on what microbes they’re carrying.

Scientists cultivate sulfate-reducing microbes from some of the oldest-known water on Earth.

Scientists extracted 4,500-year-old yeast from Egyptian pottery to use in breadmaking.

Researchers confirm TR4’s presence in Colombia, increasing concerns about the future of the industry.

Oxytetracycline, approved by the US government to combat citrus scourge, may not work—at least not as a spray.

Physical activity, independent of diet, shifts the composition of bacteria in the intestines, spurring researchers to search for species that might provide benefits akin to working out.

Mycale grandis teams up with microbes housed inside it to gather nutrients.

In Niger, fewer kids die when health workers administer azithromycin routinely, perhaps because of a shift in the composition of gut microbes.

The 12-year-long endeavor reveals Prometheoarchaeum as a tentacled cell, living in a symbiotic relationship with methane-producing microbes.