A new microscopy technique allows scientists to see single-atom-thick boron nitride by making it glow under infrared light.

Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

The European Research Council (ERC) will fund Prof. Anupam Sengupta’s research into how bacteria interact with and control light, and possible opportunities for new imaging technologies. The grant of ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Research presented by Professor Cecilia Johansson of Imperial College London has linked early type I interferon signalling in ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...

Coral reefs shape the daily rise and fall of nearby microbes, organizing them into rhythms that influence how reef ecosystems ...