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A groundbreaking new study of microbes underground is challenging everything we thought we knew about extreme environments.

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Scientists Find Signs of Life Deep Inside the Earth

Researchers have discovered that bacteria and fungi can join forces to form assemblages of "superorganisms" that can "walk" across your teeth.

Researchers Say Microbes Assemble Into “Superorganisms” That Crawl Around Your Teeth

By Frank Landymore

A new study published in the journal Microbial Ecology found a growing number of bugs that have evolved to carry a plastic-degrading enzyme.

Microbes Are Evolving to Eat Plastic Pollution, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Georgia Tech scientists believe that microbes could be the key to producing the rocket fuel needed to take humans from Mars back to Earth.

Microbes Could Help Produce Rocket Fuel for Return Trips from Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists ground up ancient Mars rocks to see if microbes could survive on it. They did, and its biosignatures could help the Perseverance team.

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Scientists Grow Microbes on Actual Mars Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

An extremophile bacteria survived a year in space. Scientists uncovered how it pulled off the feat, suggesting microbes could travel among planets.

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New Research Shows How a Microbe Could Survive Journey Between Planets

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have come up with a clever device that can generate electricity from air moisture.

Clever Device Generates Electricity From Thin Air

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper argues that the “primary colonists” of Mars should be microbes like the ones which support life on Earth in order to terraform the Red Planet.

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Contaminating Mars With Microbes Could Kickstart Colonization

By Natalie Coleman

Researchers have discovered that the Earth's underground ecosystem is massive, roughly twice as big as all the world's oceans combined.

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Massive Underground Ecosystem Could Help Us Find Alien Life

By Kristin Houser

Researchers studying a tiny microbe discover that it warrants the creation of an entirely new branch on the Charles Darwin-created Tree of Life.

New Research Adds Another Branch to the Evolutionary Tree of Life

By Kristin Houser

A Fleet of Underwater Robots Will Create Detailed Map of Marine Microbes

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A Fleet of Underwater Robots Will Create Detailed Map of Marine Microbes

By Claudia Geib

New Study Reveals Microbial Communities’ Full Impact on Human Health

New Study Reveals Microbial Communities’ Full Impact on Human Health

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We May Have Just Discovered the Deepest Traces of Life on Earth

A New Study Has Revealed a Link Between Gut Bacteria and Parkinson’s Disease

A New Study Has Revealed a Link Between Gut Bacteria and Parkinson’s Disease

By Patrick Caughill

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50,000 Year Old Lifeforms Were Found in an Abandoned Mine

By Patrick Caughill

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Scientists Have Officially Entered the Weird World of Bacteria-Powered Batteries

By June Javelosa