It’s a beneficial nutrient - but taking it in supplement form can come with long-term health risks.

Modern-day analogs in Antarctica reveal ponds teeming with life similar to early multicellular organisms.

MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen.

Taking a bath may not be your favorite thing to do, but it will help keep you clean and healthy.

These bacteria, which could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, could act as sensors to help farmers monitor their crops.

Scientists have described antimicrobial resistance as an overlooked pandemic. Improving surveillance can help prevent deadly outbreaks.

Findings may help predict how rain and irrigation systems launch particles and pathogens from watery surfaces, with implications for industry, agriculture, and public health.

MIT physicists develop a predictive formula, based on bacterial communities, that may also apply to other types of ecosystems, including the human GI tract.

Using digital blueprints of the metabolism of microbes, scientists can simulate expensive and time-intensive experiments set in space, power plants and farm fields.

New findings illuminate how Prochlorococcus’ nightly “cross-feeding” plays a role in regulating the ocean’s capacity to cycle and store carbon.