Viruses living on plastic surfaces may help transfer antibiotic resistance genes among microbes in the environment.

Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but this study reframes them as potent regulators of the ocean’s ...

Coral reefs don’t just shape marine life you can see, they also control the daily rhythms of invisible microbes nearby.

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

A research team systematically compared four commonly used air-sampling technologies to determine which methods most ...

For the last two years, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has worked with the Boothbay Region Water District to monitor ...

To arrive at its conclusions, the study examined the prevalence and diversity of staphylococci in airborne particles ...

Sprouting activates endogenous enzymes that remodel carbohydrates, proteins, and antinutrients, improving nutrient ...

This is because the beetle can break down the plant-derived compounds (phenolic glucosides) via a water-mediated process ...

This population-based study shows that shared and pattern-specific blood biomarkers reflect biological vulnerability ...

A research team found that plant-derived compounds significantly lowered the abundance of pathogenic bacteria, antibiotic ...