The unicellular species Stentor roeseli performs a form of sequential decision-making to avoid irritating stimuli.

Researchers plan an oceanographic expedition to understand why a phytoplankton bloom developed as molten lava flowed into the sea east of Hawaii's Big Island.

As the afternoon breezes blow harder in the Atacama Desert—a place so desolate it’s used as a model of Mars—more microbes move into its driest regions.

Bacteria that take in inorganic carbon could have applications in sustainable biofuels.

Roughly a quarter of 38 viral samples from people treated with Xofluza had mutations in their genomes that made the pathogens less susceptible to the drug.

See this year’s winners of the American Society for Microbiology’s agar art competition.

Oligomannate, derived from a compound in seaweed, suppresses neural inflammation caused by gut bacteria in mice.

Metabolic disrupters, phages, and other approaches are going to be needed to treat the broadest possible range of patients infected by bacterial pathogens resistant to multiple drugs.

Cable bacteria can live in stirred-up sediments by associating with structures built by Chaetopterus variopedatus.