Many people associate NASA with exploring new worlds in space, but few know it's also finding new microscopic ecosystems right here. Years ago, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a scientist who decontaminates ...

Perfectly adapted microorganisms live in extreme environments from deep-sea trenches to mountaintops. Learning more about how these extremophiles survive in hostile conditions could inform scientists ...

Microorganisms may be able to survive just under the surface of Mars for far longer than researchers thought. In a new set of experiments, researchers found that dried-up bacteria could stay alive in ...

Microbes that are used for health, agricultural, or other applications need to be able to withstand extreme conditions and, ideally, the manufacturing processes used to make tablets for long-term ...

In the steamy waters of Yellowstone National Park's hot springs lives a type of bacterium that could help make industrial bleaching cheaper and more environmentally friendly. Scientists have found ...

Guoqiang Chen has spent most of his 4-decade scientific career training microbes to make plastic. And he sees PhaBuilder, which he cofounded in 2021 with two of his former students, Yuxuan Lan and ...