New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists ...

Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth's earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils—even though ...

Iron is one of the most abundant metals on Earth's surface, yet how such massive iron ore deposits formed throughout ...

Vaccination is one of the most important tools for preventing infectious diseases and protecting public health. However, ...

The fossil record is biased. Because soft tissues like organs are very rarely preserved, paleontologists are left to piece together extinct life from the hard stuff (bones, shells, exoskeletons, ...

The Indigenous African Hadza and South American Tsimane share gut microorganisms that shed light on human dispersals and ...

Older, forceful models spray the most microbes, and the plume doesn't always stay in the bathroom.

The findings underline new ways in which people’s collection of gut microorganisms, known as their microbiome, might be ...

A simulated 8-degree heatwave in Lake Taihu mesocosms revealed that prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities follow ...

President Trump said Monday he is concerned about the suspected plague case in Russia, saying the U.S. is “looking at it very ...

As waves of humans left Africa tens of thousands of years ago, eventually populating the entire planet, they were joined on ...

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