microbiology

What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it?

Why didn't this 2,000 year old body decompose?

What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate

What a chemical language from the ocean could teach us about ourselves

The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals

What we can learn from the microbes in oil fields

How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health

How sharks could inspire a new generation of medical devices

The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity

These bacteria eat plastic

To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language

How a long-forgotten virus could help us solve the antibiotics crisis

The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet

How we study the microbes living in your gut

This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life

Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face

Why I still have hope for coral reefs

Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology

Humanity at the intersection of science and archaeology

Pollution-free lights, powered by microbes

How to grow a forest in your backyard

A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food

A robot that eats pollution

When I die, recompose me

How we can make crops survive without water

How humans could evolve to survive in space

3 moons and a planet that could have alien life

A new superweapon in the fight against cancer

How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs

What a planet needs to sustain life

Design at the intersection of technology and biology

Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life

How butterflies self-medicate

What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

Zombie roaches and other parasite tales