Microbes

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New research in Brazil highlights how distinctive the "living skin" of the planet can be.

A new study found plenty of bacteria, fungi, and insect remains, but nothing to be alarmed about.

On a “body farm,” researchers are exploring whether the nutrients from human cadavers can change the look of plants, which authorities might use to locate missing persons.

Meet the icy continent's menagerie of microbes.

Sally Warring knows a lot about what we can't see.

Some scientists believe this is how we'll know what to look for.

Aged, ripe, and not for consumption.

Microbes that thrive under the harshest conditions are making themselves right at home—in our homes.

From the Namib Desert to Maine, fog is teeming with life.

What would happen if briny Martian liquid met an Earthling cucumber?

Meet the smallest straphangers.

Plants have microbiomes, too, and they're full of untapped secrets.

The collection holds 105 starters and counting.

Maybe it's best not to think too much about what's in your bed now.

Rachel Dutton's studies of bacteria may have a huge impact on dairy as we know it.

Researchers enlisted microbes to create a model for a self-sustaining food web. But the finished meal looks like goo.