As scientists search for life on Mars, they should take a close look at rock varnish, according to a paper in the current issue of the “Journal of Geophysical Research.” The paper describes how a ...

Unicellular algae are an attractive and surprisingly diverse habitat for marine bacteria. A research team led by microbiologist Professor Dr. Meinhard Simon from the University of Oldenburg has now ...

Imagine a home on Mars. Is it filled with bacteria? When we send humans to Mars, they'll need places to live. In a new study, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in ...

It’s a most unlikely habitat and really has no creature comforts to recommend it. But University of Delaware researcher Julie Maresca and students in her lab are studying concrete and the life that ...

Given the proximity of your tongue to your teeth and your cheeks to your gums, you might expect that the microbial communities that call these niches home, would be highly similar if not identical.

Researchers have examined the human oral microbiome and discovered tremendous variability in bacterial subpopulations living in certain areas of the mouth. In many cases, the team was able to identify ...

The diversity and composition of local communities depends strongly on the pool of species that have been able to colonize that community from elsewhere. Typically this is thought to depend on a ...

Five people are confirmed dead in the Tampa Bay area because of a flesh-eating bacterium known to lurk at beaches, Florida officials reported. According to Florida Health, the vibrio vulnificus ...